Laurie Lee - Arena: Wisconsin Death Trip 1999 - Weird or What? TV - Tommy Cooper - Thomas Hardy - Virginia Woolf -
She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve. Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie
Mary Sweeney: Her uncontrollable mania for breaking windows. Arena: Wisconsin Death Trip, newspaper report, BBC 1999
Mary Sweeney, the schoolteacher known as the Wisconsin Window Smasher, has just completed tour of the principle towns and jails of the state. She claims to have destroyed $50,000’ worth of glass on her recent trip. ibid.
It began with two brothers ... On December 7th the Morenos were going about their daily routine. Their job as high-rise window washers was not without its dangers. Their day started cleaning the glass on an Upper East Side apartment building more than a hundred and twenty metres up ... From forty-seven storeys up the platform plummeted for nearly six seconds before it crashed on to the pavement ... Although one of the brothers had died the other was somehow miraculously breathing. Weird or What? Strange Survival
I went window shopping today! I bought four windows. Tommy Cooper
Something tapped on the pane of my room
When there was never a trace
Of wind or rain, and I saw in the gloom
My weary Beloved’s face. Thomas Hardy, Something Tapped
What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
This is the second floor of our notorious headquarters here in the centre of Milano, notorious following a sordid little incident which happened here a few days ago when an anarchist under interrogation on one of the upper floors fell through the window. Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, rozzer, Youtube 1.14.39/Thames TV
It’s no use trying to pull the wool over my eyes, sonny. ibid.
You said, We were all having a jolly good time and he jumped out of the window. ibid. acting judge