NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance? CORRECTED

[alice wellintown]

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/a/armstrong-battle.html
On Saturday, April 20, 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:

> " But all of our experience suggests that it is not “fundamentalism” alone
> but an aching tension between modernity and a false picture of a purer
> fundamentalist past that makes terrorists."
>
> This is Adam Gopnick in The New Yorker today about the marathon bombers.
> Does this apply to any of P's characters in AtD?
> Does this apply to P's vision? Is Hume's condemning what she sees as P's
> moral failure in Against the Day, refuted, or attempted
> to be seen (refuted) by P's vision of the cohesion of life in the Olde
> Europe scenes---the communities of the villages?
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> Or, a few have remarked that DeLillo best captured the meanings and
> understandings of the characters in our recent acts of local terror. True,
> where?
> You can answer this question instead.
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> Extra credit for both.
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