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This Tuesday, at 10:45 a.m., a true and vertical bond was formed between second-year College student Ralph Stevenson and two-year Mansueto window-washing veteran Mike Howard.Time stood still and erect, aligned with the intensely human and precisely plumb moment created when Ralph glanced up from his Spanish textbook and Mike set down his squeegee. \u0093I knew my gaze was on the Y-axis,\u0094 exclaimed Ralph breathlessly, \u0093but for those few, long seconds, I couldn\u0092t tell what direction I was looking in, except that it definitely wasn\u0092t sideways.\u0094 From 10:45 to 10:46, every horizontal trouble fell away, and there existed no space but the space that dropped from Mike’s eyes through the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library ceiling and the space that rose from Ralph\u0092s. <\/p>\n
\u0093This is why I get up at four o’clock every morning,\u0094 said Mike, a Chicago native who has spent 17 years washing windows. \u0093If I can allow only gravity to direct my sight, and in so doing form an all-too-fleeting unity with a collegiate below, then my work is done. That and making the glass clean.\u0094 The two remained in each other\u0092s vertical company for an entire vertical minute, until the washing was complete and Mike slid down the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library building like it was a slide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Chris Deakin Nov. 7, 2012 This Tuesday, at 10:45 a.m., a true and vertical bond was formed between second-year College student Ralph Stevenson and two-year Mansueto window-washing veteran Mike Howard.Time stood still and erect, aligned with the intensely human and precisely plumb moment created when Ralph glanced up from his Spanish textbook and Mike set down his squeegee. \u0093I knew my gaze was on the Y-axis,\u0094 exclaimed Ralph breathlessly, \u0093but for those few, long seconds, I couldn\u0092t tell what direction I was looking in, except that it definitely wasn\u0092t sideways.\u0094 From 10:45 to 10:46, every horizontal trouble fell away, and there existed no space but the space that dropped from Mike’s eyes through the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library ceiling and the space that rose from Ralph\u0092s. \u0093This is why I get up at four o’clock every morning,\u0094 said Mike, a Chicago native who has spent 17 years washing windows. \u0093If I can allow only gravity to direct my sight, and in so doing form an all-too-fleeting unity with a collegiate below, then my work is done. That and making the glass clean.\u0094 The two remained in each other\u0092s vertical company for an entire vertical minute, until the washing was complete and Mike slid down the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library building like it was a slide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}