Same options for IE 9 on Windows 7, btw.
Mine was “The Crying of Lot 49.”
More argument over the types of boats later. Some tug manufacturer arguing his boats would be the most efficient for moving people. Olmsted sending a strongly worded letter to Burnham arguing that the efficiency of moving people was never the point, the point was the beauty of having pretty boats moving around, and that he’d rather have NO boats than unbecoming ones.
So yes, it is “pretty boats”.
And what does “The Crying of Lot 49” mean?
Auction speak. Lots are items up for bid and the auctioneer is crying a lot when he’s taking bids on it.
Read it just a month or two ago. Yikes! I admire the subtlety, the abstract distance, with which the author describes the deaths. Very chilling!
But it was also a cool book, for the history of the fair. I had no idea of the sheer scale of the place! Holy wow! Wish I could go and visit!
(Has anyone made a virtual 3-D tour yet?)
So I was all set to put this book on my reading list but after reading about the subject matter… no.
But it’s awesome!
OK, I understand architecture isn’t to everyone’s taste, but really, Larson makes it interesting!
there are a couple of fairly gruesome forensic analyses of how the victims must have died. So if that’s going to haunt you, I’d advise not.
Actually, what I’d relaly advise is to have someone go through and put sticky notes to block off those few scenes for you, because the book as a whole is incredibly good.
So it didn’t occur to you to try googling “definition becoming”?
Is this thread really that onerous for you? If it gets even one more person to read Devil In the White City, I think it will have been worth it.
I’m sure Irishman knows what *becoming *means. It’s just sometimes when your brain has decided an instance of a word has a particular meaning in some context, it shuts out the other meanings.
It would never occur to me to look up *becoming *if I kept reading the phrase with *becoming *meaning “in the act of transforming into.”
Right?
I’m right there with you, bup.
Yeah, there are some grand fountains that were built for the fair still standing (though in disrepair) in the swampy park areas south of the MSI.
Like the PT-109, you mean?
Too soon?
No, it didn’t.
Like bup said, my brain had already put it in a category.
I figured it was a reference to one of those transformer toys.
On the subject of the White City, the Chicago Architecturel Foundation has a Devil in the White City tour that gives you a good sense of what it must have looked like. http://www.architecture.org/
Can you give a better link than just the main page? I can’t find that tour.
I found this by entering Devil In The White City in the search boxes…
Thank you, Irishman. This book sounds like it’s right up my alley. Going to read it!