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Crystal clear memories7/26/2023 Our checkout process lists a delivery date based upon our own image conversion, processing, and engraving time, as well as the time our delivery carriers quote us to get your crystal to your destination. Not to worry, your crystal will arrive when we say it will! You say you guarantee your delivery. For orders with shipping addresses closer to our location in Florida, this may mean a longer handling time than orders distant from us, all so we can meet your guaranteed delivery date. We then prioritize orders based on guaranteed delivery date so your crystal arrives on or before the date we promised. Once you place your order, you will immediately see it on our Track Your Order page as Processing. How long does it take for my order to ship? We ship from our headquarters and manufacturing facility in Tampa, Florida. We ship the majority of our orders with UPS, but we cannot guarantee a specific carrier - but we do guarantee we'll ship it to arrive by the time we say it will. We also display the guaranteed delivery dates for each shipping option, so you can know for sure that your order will arrive when you need it, and that you're selecting the best shipping option for your wallet. Mr.When you check out, you'll have a number of shipping options that meet your budget and time frame. On the "cold shadow of the planes." Why all this should seem so much more powerful in book form than it was in the New York issue of Holiday Magazine, where it first was printed, is difficult to say. Toward the end, White gets into the subject so few New Yorkers talk about-its vulnerability to "a flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese." You want to pull the apartment shades and turn on comforting light when he touches Teeth, the ponderous machinery that moves the letter written by a young man in Manhattan to his girl in Brooklyn, the endless irritations and tensions of City existence-all pulse and throb in this small volume. Tenement groups squatting on orange crates on a hot summer night, soundless men and women handling endless papers behind office windows, the Queen Mary blatting her way downstream to the sea, the forces set to work when New York brushes its They lay bare the City's ugliness as well as its beauties, but nowhere do the words fall harshly. ![]() His analyses of the City and of the creatures whoĭwell in it are diamond bright, yet touched with softness. ![]() White tells how the City compresses all life into a small island, and then turns out a miracle of literary compactness that misses none of the City's color, or flavor, or changing mood. The answer is obvious-no one else turns out quite the same distillate. ![]() You wonder why someone didn't do New York that way before. You gulp it like good light wine, and come up heady. He studies the City's frighteningĭimensions and reduces them to a few powerful lines. He sniffs at the City's commingled odors and makes them stick on paper. White hears the City's voice clearly even in the most subtle ranges and somehow captures the message in a few perfect words. It is black magic done with printer's ink. No matter how often you reread it, you find it hard to say how the effect is achieved. His master of literary distillates has filtered into fifty-four small, tightly worded pages what countless clumsy scribblers have not been able DecemCrystal-Clear New York By MEYER BERGER
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