Friday, September 25, 2009

the bridge



"Over the great bridge...with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world." (The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Image: The Bridge: Nocturne -- Julian Alden Weir, 1910 (Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden)