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[MJ Cheeseman]

What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal

[The Wasteland 366-376]

The symbolism of the events in Manhattan is terrifying. 12 assassins armed
with craft knives (luddite ninjas?) bring down the twin towers of America &
The Western Way (the civilised world?) using passenger airflights (a luxury
affordable to few). The simplicity and shock of this act resonates
throughout history, fact and fiction. It's not just Hollywood, it's early
myth.

I can't handle it real: it's huge, too audacious.