True story – in 1974, French tightrope walker Phillippe Petit slung a rope from the top of one of the twin Trade Towers in New York City to the other, which was still wrapping up construction.  (I was always uncertain quite how he managed that, but apparently it involved a bow and arrow, incredibly enough.)  He then not only walked across, but ran across, danced across, and just to prove his point, lay down on it mid-span for as one does – all the while […]