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Off the Shelf
By Hilary Krutt | Friday,
August 21, 2015
In the bustling city of New York, eight million people whirl
through their lives every day. It is easy for our tunnel vision to blind us
to the humanity of the people we pass in the street, on the subway, in line
at the grocery store. Yet each of these people has a story, perhaps far and away
from our own, and it is an extraordinary thing that our lives have brought us
to the same place for even a moment. It is even more extraordinary to
consider that our paths have already crossed, or will continue to
intersect—to imagine that we are connected to these strangers in ways yet
unknown.
In Let the
Great World Spin, McCann explores this phenomenon through the
catalyst of a hot summer day in 1974, when Philippe Petit walked across a
tightrope strung between the Twin Towers. ... READ
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