The lovely Laura Hutton reflected on Manhattan (in the New York Observer) after the recent airplane crash…she said,“We’ll need a new Constantinople. We can use Pittsburg”. Can someone explain this sophisticated allusion by this cagey blond? For a farm boy outside of Spokane.
Perhaps she refered to how, as the city of Rome was sort of declining due to a variety of troubles, Constantine moved the real capital of the empire east to Byzantium (Constantinople).?
That’s as good an interpretation as any I could offer.
However, let’s not over-analyze this metaphor. After all, Constantinople fell to the Turks, albiet after about 1100 years. 
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.
RR
:rolleyes:
I must have been thinking about the Albiet Cong or something.
albeit
So Laura Hutton thinks New York City is in the same downfallen position as barbarian-sacked Rome in the late Roman/early Byzantine empires?! To avoid the Pit, let me just say :eek: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :eek: