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24 Steven Pressfield
Positively Fourth Street in Three Acts
1. “You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend ....
2. “ ... when you know as well as me, you’d rather see me
paralyzed ...
3. “ ... you’d know what a drag it is to see you.”
The Vietnam Memorial
In three acts, on one sheet of foolscap:
1. A wall with the names of the fallen in chronological
order of the dates of their deaths.
2. Wall set below the level of the ground in a “V,” extending
from a shallow end to a deep end.
3. Visitors descend to view the wall, which has no barrier
to prevent them from touching the names of the
memorialized or from leaving tokens of love or honor at
the base of the wall.
At the conception stage, the artist works by instinct. What feels
right?
What does she love?
Is this her pure vision? Does it feel so right to her that she can
dedicate the next X years of her life to realizing it?
Those were the only questions, at the start, that Maya Lin need-
ed to ask and answer.
