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And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.High-wire artist Philippe Petit is a high-wire artist who famously set up a wire between the World Trade towers and walked between them. In this 1999 profile, he talks about his unusual idea to walk across a high wire at the Grand Canyon.
Canyon Walk, Petit says, will be his masterpiece. In a written statement whose cadences simultaneously echo and mock the circus hyperbole that he detests, he calls it “the greatest show of my life, the most arduous crossing, the most fragile, the most astonishing, the most icy, the most shared, the most intimate, the most radiant, the most imposing, the most celestial. Like all the others, past and future.
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