Have I Told You?
Have I ever told you that the Queensboro Bridge is my favorite bridge? In the world, I think, but certainly in New York. Everybody has a favorite. The suspension bridges are certainly more popular. The Queensborough is a plain old cantilever bridge, but it goes out of its way to capture some suspension-bridge slopes. And those crazy, firework-ey Saul Steinberg finials!
How about this fine cargo ship, the Caribbean.
Except, er, it’s actually a barge. See the tugboat at the back? It’s a barge, and an empty barge at that. Let me tell you, that thing was traveling!
‘We are waiting for this huge rocket with this very tiny capsule atop it to complete is slow careful transit to the launch pad
‘and then we are off to the moon tomorrow with Apollo 11.’, Cronkite might have said something along those lines perhaps. That’s pretty much how I feel as I’ve watched all this clear-headed work creeping down the lane to the launching pad. I only hope I live long enough to see the launch, to see the power of this huge rocket you’ve created lift your pen to be directed, if only for a short time, at some moon, some topic or concept way out there. I wonder who will play the part of Mr Gorsky? Which moon will it be, what will you find there for us. So far the reports from the early missions have been absolutely fabulous.