Jun 20
so fun coming across pre-9/11 references to the twin towers bc people loathed them. You can be reading a random book from the 90s and stumble across succulent easter eggs like this:
"...where the World Trade Center (so good they did it twice!) stands as the final failure of architecture; not an idea, not a design, not a whimsy, not a grace note, not a shred of art or passion wrinkles those sharply creased trouser legs."
(Don't Ask by Donald E. Westlake)
i once read somewhere that new yorkers refered to the twin towers as the boxes the chrysler building and empire state building came in
