DANIEL BURNHAM. The Conway. Turning the Corner

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A corner. (This I understand).

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A rounded corner. (Okay)

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A rounded corner with a bottom, a middle, and a top. (Still, an easy read)
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A rounded corner with a bottom, a transition, a middle, a transition, a top, a transition, a cornice. (Hmm)
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A rounded corner with a bottom, a transition, a middle divided into four discreet patterns, a transition, a cornice, a balustrade. a balustrade cap. (You're losing me)

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A rounded corner with a bottom, a transition, a middle divided into four discreet patterns, a transition, a cornice, a balustrade. a balustrade cap, differentiated from three other corners on the building. (Another language, they're speaking, it seems)

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A rounded corner with a bottom, a transition, a middle divided into four discreet patterns, a transition, a cornice, a balustrade. a balustrade cap, differentiated from three other corners on the building, requiring 14 major plan/detail, section/detail, elevation/detail component drawings in their typical condition, 14 more at typical corners and 14 more at the primary corner. Another piece of linen for the Clark/Washington ornament including: the upper and mid shields (Mr. Field suggested the Y), the ionic column caps (I have an idea for that), and the victory swag detail. I will personally design the Interior Piazza and ornament -- to go toe to toe with (that bastard drunk) Sullivan. Mr. Dinkleberg, you will do the exterior geometries. I have a watercolor of Genevieve for Northwest Terra Cotta. Have them bring me a grotesque. We'll also need four lions, ring in mouth, draw dropped. Daniel has re-sketched the elevator locations....... Tell the boy we'll be needing ink.

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Our minds no longer work this way. We are not the same men and women who lived and worked in 1913. Electricity, automobiles, telephones were new to them. They read Frost for the first time. And cherished their Thomas Bailey  Aldrich. Imagined airplanes. Mourned the Titanic. Had heard of Radio. We should not be surprised that we don't understand.

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Neither should we question that they speak.