http://nakedlunch.org Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1959 publication of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:03:22 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://nakedlunch.org/naked-lunch/space-time-travel/naked-lunch-and-new-york/washington-square-station/comment-page-1/#comment-650 Tom Buckner Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:53:40 +0000 http://nakedlunch.org/?page_id=212#comment-650 Perhaps the concrete stairs are not an error by Burroughs but rather an alteration which happened in the last 50 years? The old stairs might indeed have been iron, and needed repair. The station must have been about 40 years old when Burroughs used it, and I'd be willing to bet the original steps were not poured concrete. They'd be stone or iron, more likely, because although concrete goes back to ancient Rome, you don't tend to see it in such massive use in century-old structures. Perhaps the concrete stairs are not an error by Burroughs but rather an alteration which happened in the last 50 years? The old stairs might indeed have been iron, and needed repair. The station must have been about 40 years old when Burroughs used it, and I’d be willing to bet the original steps were not poured concrete. They’d be stone or iron, more likely, because although concrete goes back to ancient Rome, you don’t tend to see it in such massive use in century-old structures.

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