The Devil In The White City

The section called "Vexed" talks so much about their troubles, its sad. I think that Burhnam has no excuse to see his family because he was the architect and he didn't need to build anything, so he had enough time to visit his family. The way Burhnam explains the feelings he has for the fair makes it seem like the dream he has had for years has turned into a nightmare. He also talks alot about out-eiffeling Eiffel, he seems obsessed with beating Mr.Eiffel. I also went on wondering why the Liberal Arts Building is so important to the book since they showed the picture of it in the beginning of Part II. They tried this new foundation where the Liberal Arts Building was going to be at and they found out that it started sinking and they couldn't have that happen because thats the most important building. I thought that it was cool how Burhnam met Thomas Edison, I thought that he was dead because he was probably really old. They also mentioned this company that is still here now. They were saying how General Electric Company took over many electric companies including Thomas Edison's company which I thought was sad because Thomas invented the light bulb and its just wrong to get him out of a job. Burhnam is so obsessed about being the best in the world. I can' t believe he told Hunt that he was an embarrassment that was pretty mean. Olmsted got really sick and I think he is going to die. I was thinking man everyone's getting sick. Burhnam thinks he will finish by the end of the year but I think he asking for too much because they barely made any progress. I also wonder what are pygmies because they said it alot in this section. They also started spreading rumors that Eiffel is going to do the out-eiffeling, and many engineers got really angry about and Burhnam loved how they showed so much passion about the situation. I was like "Finally some support or enthusiasm about what they are doing".