At night the dark bands stretched across the face of the high-rise like dead strata in a fading brain."The air condition goes out and when it does come back on it only trickles out for a few minutes before failing again. The trash is accumulating on the ground floor, the trash chutes become jammed and more and more trash is being hoisted over the side of the building creating an intolerable situation for the lower tenants.Įlectricity winks out leaving entire floors without power for days at a time. Richard Wilder, a man working on a documentary about human behavior, lives in the lower levels. Robert Laing reside, are resentful of the upper levels, but also becoming more disdainful of the lower levels. The perceived richest people, where Anthony Royal resides, are on the upper levels. A rich jeweler plummets from his upper level apartment onto the roof of a car. Robert Laing's balcony and it is equivalent to the first canon fired on Fort Sumter.Īs the week continues more bottles are dropped and other assorted trash begins to fall from the sky. A bottle drops from a higher floor and shatters on Dr. Despite the developing problems entire floor parties are standard weekend entertainment. The apartments sell out quickly and as everyone start to settle into their new lives glitches start to occur. The people the building attracts are white collar, well educated, professionals. It is a self-contained environment with everything a tenant would need such as shopping or exercise or even schools for their kids. The apartments sell out quickly and as everyone start to settle into their ne "A low crime-rate doctor," she told him amiably, "is a sure sign of social deprivation."Īnthony Royal built the Titanic of skyscrapers.Ī state of the art, megalithic structure suitable for 2,000 tenants.
A state of the art, megalithic structure suitable for 2,000 tenants. "A low crime-rate doctor," she told him amiably, "is a sure sign of social deprivation." Anthony Royal built the Titanic of skyscrapers.
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