So, it can be said that there was some redemptive value to this film…
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E.B. White was a favorite childhood author of mine and this book was at the top.
And, of course, who can forget the two prescient sentences found within Mr. White’s, “Here is New York” (1949)?
“A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.”
He was commissioned to write an essay for HOLIDAY magazine and in doing so, foretold that ominous day on 9/11/01.
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So, it can be said that there was some redemptive value to this film…
_______________________________________
E.B. White was a favorite childhood author of mine and this book was at the top.
And, of course, who can forget the two prescient sentences found within Mr. White’s, “Here is New York” (1949)?
“A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.”
He was commissioned to write an essay for HOLIDAY magazine and in doing so, foretold that ominous day on 9/11/01.