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Subject:	Re: OK, let's open discussion on the Poe House...
From:	"J.A. Drew Diaz" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:	Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:42:56 -0500
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Ken Follett wrote:

>
> I see more sense in preserving the Brooklyn Bridge for the argument that
> poets like to jump off it and that we need to preserve this cultural
> infrastructure for the inspiration of future usage. You never know when angst
> will prevail.
>

Actually-

The technical term for jumping off of the Brooklyn Bridge is "Take a Brodie" or
"Do a Brodie"
as in Steve Brodie who claimed to have jumped from the BB, on a $100 bet &
survived in 1886 and rode the fame to a career as a saloon keeper.

DD

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