The World Trade center was an example of what was wrong with American architecture, and it stayed that way for twenty-five years until that Friday afternoon in February when the bomb went off and the buildings became a great symbol of America, like the Statue of Liberty at the end of Hitchcock's Saboteur. My whole attitude toward the World Trade Center changed overnight.


Valentine Place (1996). The World Trade Center

David Lehman Quotes

The World Trade center was an example of what was wrong with American architecture, and it stayed that way for twenty-five years until that Friday...

The World Trade center was an example of what was wrong with American architecture, and it stayed that way for twenty-five years until that Friday...

The World Trade center was an example of what was wrong with American architecture, and it stayed that way for twenty-five years until that Friday...

The World Trade center was an example of what was wrong with American architecture, and it stayed that way for twenty-five years until that Friday...