Manifesting Michelangelo by Joseph Pierce Farrell

Author:Joseph Pierce Farrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2011-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

A SECOND OPINION

There are more things in heaven and

earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

—William Shakespeare, Hamlet

In 1978, thirty-one-year-old Stuart Cosgriff’s future looked bright. He worked for his father-in-law’s business, a huge concern called Mastercraft Fabrics, selling cotton and synthetic fabrics to be draped across windows and stretched over furniture to make homes more comfortable and sophisticated. Stu’s business took him all over New York State, and he often drove for long hours. The trip he made in the late afternoon of March 17 that year found him driving on the Long Island Expressway toward Manhattan, looking forward to the descent into the dark mouth of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel. It was a familiar journey: Stu would enter the underworld beneath the East River and then climb out of the tunnel to see the light reflecting off the skyline of Manhattan. After traversing midtown Manhattan, he anticipated arriving at his home in Tenafly, New Jersey, to his wife and children.

But as John Lennon sang, life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. Stu was driving along the section of the expressway approaching the tunnel when a few cars in front of him got tangled up in one of those spontaneous fender benders that seem to come out of nowhere but can snarl traffic for infuriating hours. Stu heard cars smacking into one another, brakes squealing, plastic bumpers crunching as they whacked into metal doors and fenders. Stu jammed on his brakes and was able to avoid the collision. He was fine, with not a scratch on him or his car, but he could see someone else who was not, a young woman struggling to open her banged-in door and get out of her car. Drivers were already beginning to exchange insurance information, and Stu could tell that the woman wanted to join in. Jumping into action, he was able to get her car door open; the woman, whose name was Margaret Poloskey, got out and thanked him.

Things had begun to return to normal. Heartbeats slowed, and the adrenaline rush dissipated. As Stu and Margaret began chatting calmly, though, they heard a screech of brakes that sounded as if a jet taking off from Kennedy Airport had overshot the runway and was about to land on the wide strip of the Long Island Expressway. But it wasn’t a plane that was rocketing at them. A fully loaded eighteen-wheel tractor-trailer, without the capability to stop as quickly as a car one-twentieth its weight, was plowing into a dark blue van just behind Stu and Margaret. In the few seconds it took them to realize what was happening, the truck had careened into the rear of the van with such impact that it sent the smaller vehicle hurtling like a grisly billiard shot straight at the pedestrians standing on the five-lane highway.

The van ricocheted into Margaret. Then, in virtually the same moment, its bumper ripped into Stu’s legs and tossed him in the air like a broken doll. He landed with a thud on the road.

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