Has Art Helped You Make Sense of 9/11?

[Jay Herzog]

>From Slate's culturebox:

Christopher Benfey, Slate art critic:

I was spooked to find in Gravity's Rainbow so many anticipations of
9/11, from its familiar opening words ("A screaming comes across the
sky") to stray details ("But then last September the rockets came"),
and, on the last page, a reference to "the Light that brought the
Towers low." Back in 1973, Pynchon gave us our great paranoid dream of
a world ruled by "The Firm," where "there is a Pearl Harbor every
morning, smashing invisibly from the sky." But he also offers some
refuge in the quiet precincts of Emily Dickinson's poetry, invoked
more than once, and in the sheer imaginative arc of his onrushing
book.

http://www.slate.com/id/2149194/

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