right to left: The "gloomily sooty" Monadnock building, the Fisher Building reflected, Metropolitan Correctional Facility

“Like the difference between Communion and communion, between obligatory ritual and the experience of oneness, there is a vast distinction: there’s standing in front of the Monadnock with Bach’s book, and then there’s coming up from the subway to find the Monadnock on your left, gloomily sooty and magnificent.”

Peter Bacon Hales in his introductory essay to Bob Thall’s The Perfect City