Quote of the Day | 0715
This got me to thinking about a man I interviewed in the mid-’60s who was in charge of cleaning the tiled walls of the Lincoln Tunnel’s three tubes – each tube having 2.5 million tiles.
He and an assistant would drive two trucks in tandem through the tunnel at night – one truck equipped to squirt 1,500 gallons of liquid soap against the walls, the other affixed with large nylon brushes that swabbed the sudsy surface. After I watched him do the tedious job, the foreman had proudly driven past the gleaming tiles and said, “A tunnel is a thing of beauty, if you know how to look at it.”
Gay Talese, ‘Once Around the Island’
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