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sons and came out of it with a se-
vere case of the bendsan excruciating disease in which nitro-
gen bubbles gather in the bloodstream. Nearly killed by the
attackhe was thereafter an invalidunable to leave the top ?oor
room where he and his wife set up house in Brooklyn Heights.
There Washington Roebling sat every day for many years
watching the progress of the bridge through a telescopesend-
ing his wife down every morning with his instructionsdrawing
elaborate color pictures for the foreign workers who spoke no
English so they would understand what to do nextand the re-
markable thing was that the whole bridge was literally in his
head: every piece of it had been memorizeddown to the tiniest
bits of steel and stoneand though Washington Roebling never
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set foot on the bridgeit was totally present inside himas
though by the end of all those years it had somehow grown into
his body.
Blue thinks of this now as he makes his way across the river
watching Black ahead of him and remembering his father and
his boyhood out in Gravesend. The old man was a coplater a
detective at the 77th precinctand life would have been good
Blue thinksif it hadn��t be [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]

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