a 1,786 foot long stick in the eye 1,776 you mean? On a somewhat humorous note, this wasn't actually my first reaction to "1,786" though -- my first reaction, in all honesty, was "Quick, someone toss another three feet on there, and we'll all magically become French."
On a more serious note, I agree with you generally in the defense of occasional naive romanticism, although I'm still not sure I'm entirely comfortable using it to defend the "Freedom Tower" -- something about that naming has always seemed less earnest and more sort of perverse or even, uh, bizzaro-ish about it somehow.
After thinking about "1 World Trade Center" some more, I think that might actually be a more earnest name, in a quiet, staid kind of way, even despite the initial blandness of the name, insofar as it reclaims "World Trade Center" as an actual building (and a spectacular one at that) -- it better accomplishes that sort of phoenix-like revival that the "freedom tower" people were at least allegedly going for, whereas "freedom tower" was always going to be something different and somewhat emptily reactionary.
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a 1,786 foot long stick in the eye
1,776 you mean? On a somewhat humorous note, this wasn't actually my first reaction to "1,786" though -- my first reaction, in all honesty, was "Quick, someone toss another three feet on there, and we'll all magically become French."
Um, yes.
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