Delillo's Falling Man

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

John BAILEY wrote
>
> 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?
>

'cause Pynchon takes 9 years to write a book, and has time to add more fx?

also I'm reminded of those 2 English guys going "What world have you been living in?" - terror and crowd scenes and devastated cities being, lamentably all too common in this one (for instance, the dock fire Ms Kelber mentioned, or Baghdad for the last 4 years...) 

Finally got around to reading "Libra" and really got a feelng for poor Oswald.  Though he's no Pynchon, DeLillo has merits and crunchy goodness of his own.