skyscraper, n.Definitions

The Skyscraper is a hubristic tower of Babel.

The Skyscraper is a mountain for people to climb.

The Skyscraper doesn’t end till they run out of stories—like tedious people.

The Skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

The Skyscraper is alone in offering business the wide-open spaces of a man-made wild west, a frontier in the sky.

The Skyscraper is nothing more than a cathedral for people who believe in money instead of God.

The Skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

A Skyscraper is a structure, hidden inside which there is always a continuous waterfall of human excrement falling down to the sewers below.