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"Looking down, or looking up, today at the sulky twin towers of the World Trade Center, 'all shaft' the architects say, thinking of those towers as great sightless Brahmins brooding upon the absolute and the all-embracing spirit, it seemed to me that down below there is something of Manhattan in Bartleby and especially in his resistance to amelioration."
AUTHOR
Elizabeth Hardwick
KEYWORDS
World Trade Center, tower, blind
GENRE
20th Century Essay
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