AtD and 9/11

[David Gentle]

>I don't think that Pynchon would have written that line ignorant of
> the fact that it would make people all the more conscious that the
> book probably does have some kind of comment on modern life... again,
> that opening bit for Huckleberry Finn comes to mind.  Regardless of
> the words, he brought attention to it, and I would wager he had a
> reason for doing so.
If you were Pynchon and you'd just written a book that made no concious 
reference to the modern world, that was just a historical novel (and I'm not 
saying that AtD is that but stay with me) how would you go about addressing 
that fact (if you felt that you needed to) in a blurb you'd been asked to 
write?

DG