BETWEEN TWO RIVERS
...nt apartments where named up after famous people, people that had made a difference in their life time. People stood for something and followed their own believes. Like an icon of its time the Echo Terrace stood proud and watched over the Hudson River, giving the tenants the comfort and safety they needed. However, lately the building was changing, changing in a direction that Farro did not appreciate. For a building to be happy it has to feel good inside, and lately Farro had seen a change in the new tenants, a change to the worse. Or as Farro considered it: “The building was changing, Farro Fescu senses it. It started to go wrong when a twelfth-floor unit was bought by the clothing designer, Ira Klemp, an anorexic young man with spiked yellow hair and green eyebrows, his bony body clad in outfits of his own creation…..He glides through the lobby with his eyelids half closed and a marijuana joint hanging from his lips, as if deliberately bent on ruffling Farro Fescu’s old-world sense of propriety.”(3-4) This illustrates the type of new tenants that are living in the building for Farro, they lack a sense of style, etiquette and class. They are all what one would call new money, vulgar and noise. Rattling with the whole structure of the building, its fundament is poisoning it from inside. Another symbol of destruction is Rumfarm’s ideas for the building: “Ever since he wormed his way onto the governing board, he’s managed to make a nuisance of himself, coming up with one obtrusive idea after another, this month, it’s the waterfall.”(7) Farro thinks Rumfarm lacks the spirit of the building, installing a twenty feet high electronically controlled waterfall in the lobby would only ruin the feel of the lobby and further destroy the soul Echo Terrace has in Farro’s heart. A metaphor for the end of the buildings life is the crack Far...