Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Beautiful and deadly


The Golden Gate Bridge is getting a lot of press these days. Lots of people want the bridge to have a suicide barrier, but a lot of other people think it would be aesthetically unpleasing to have a net or something up there. I don’t live in San Francisco so I’m not going to make judgments about the issue, but I can say that every time I’ve driven over the Golden Gate, I’ve thought about Tad Friend’s story in the New Yorker.

1 comment:

Overmatter said...

I think about that line a lot: “I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.”