Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler

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A Terrible Honesty

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RICHARD DREW/AP - “Falling Man” via Wikipedia

If you haven’t noticed yet, I made this week’s Monday paid post (emailed only to paid subscribers) freely accessible on the Substack so free subscribers can have an idea of some of what you get for only $4-5 a month. That post leads into today’s essay. However you can, consider supporting my writing on Homo Vitruvius so I can write more. Thank you for reading. Thanks for subscribing.

All writers are a little crazy, but if they are any good they have a kind of terrible honesty.

Raymond Chandler

At 9:41 a.m. and 15 seconds – Tom Junod informs us in “The Falling Man,” his 20-year commemorative article for Esquire Magazine of the 9/11 World Trade Center Towers attack and collapse – photographer Richard Drew of the Associated Press shot the single frame of the 12-shot sequence of a man falling from the North Tower that became the historic photograph seen around the world.

In most American Newspapers, the photograph that Richard Drew took of the Fall…

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