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One of the influences in his design for the tower was the Tower of Babel the sense of building the impossible that has something mythic about it. The spaces inside the structure, in between the twisting steel, are cathedral like, according to Balmond, while according to Kapoor, the intention is that visitors will engage with the piece as they wind up and up and in on oneself on the spiral walkway.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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March 12, 1954
(age 70)
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