So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. “It must be a free child,” they said to...

As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation...

The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I was safe and cold in a canyon of glass and steel.

I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe,...