Genuinely on tenterhooks reading this book about the Brooklyn bridge, wondering if they will replace the head engineer who designed and built it and became horribly ill doing so with only months left before it’s finished. Courtroom drama!!!
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my source for this is HBO’s The Golden Age or whatever that show is called, but is this the same engineer whose wife was actually running things and she was also an engineer and actually fixed a bunch of the design problems along the way? or are there multiple engineer dramas 😂
that's the one! although that's probably a bit of an exaggeration, since at the time "your WIFE is doing it FOR YOU" was just about the worst insult anyone could imagine.
lol yeah that’s also my concern with the “Julius Caesar fucked the kings of the mediterranean into submission” idea - like, yesgood, obvs that would be amazing, get it son, but also probs just an insult that someone took literally 😔😑
Like for 15 years he couldn’t write or speak publicly so she took his dictation and replied to all his letters and took all his meetings and persuaded the bridge committee to do things his way. She was definitely brilliant and definitely handled things BUT so was he.
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