Delillo's Falling Man

[John BAILEY]

I'm reading Delillo's new novel, his 9/11 one, and it's remarkable how
Pynchon's oblique treatment of the subject seems far more provocative to
me precisely because of its opacity (and brevity, too). That said, going
back and re-reading the destruction of the city bit in AtD, it appears
not just a heavily encrypted meditation on the WTC attack but one which
can very, very easily be read as *not* connoting 9/11 at all. Sure, it's
perhaps inevitable that we'll think about it while reading that section,
but the details which don't correlate surely number as many as those
that do. Now, I wonder why?

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