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Article: Twice over the Forth: Bridges span two eras.(The Home Forum)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 25, 2002
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Byline: Christopher Andreae
Each time I drive over this bridge, I feel a decided lifting of the heart. A touch childish, perhaps, but I think it's the next-best thing to take-off.
Of course, it may also be that what I feel is a tingle of mock trepidation. A stirring of some vague folk memory that crossing a bridge, for all the reassuring sophistication of modern engineering, remains, at root, a sort of dodgy high-wire act.
The very idea of a bridge, in its apparent defiance of gravity, in its triumph over an impassable gap, contains a kind of daring. It's difficult to be indifferent to bridges, however familiar particular ones become. ...