I didn't realize until just now that the size and relation of the setbacks on the south side continue the "wave" of the pattern on the terracotta facade panels when viewed from the side, especially at an angle from 57th Street, which is how most people will see this. It's subtle, but it's there. Absolute genius.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
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