911 Prewarning

[David Morris]

The original Twin Towers design was widely panned by architectural critics.


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:04 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> As the towers were going up, they looked like two giant file cabinets,
> plunked down in the middle of what had been a delicate, filagreed skyline.
>  But I suppose they were really some sort of homoerotic image.  Maybe
> that's what ticked al Qaeda off.  Personally, I find the new, heterosexual
> fuck-you phallus they're constructing obscene.  "Look how long and hard we
> are now!  Don't fuck with the new viagrified trade center, evil
> terrorists!"  For a long while, it looked like they weren't going to add
> the foreskin.  But now it's in just about complete. Jews circumcize in
> infancy.  Muslims wait 7-10 years.  Is it a dare?
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bandwraith at aol.com
> Sent: Feb 28, 2013 10:14 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: 911 Prewarning
>
> I witnessed the towers just after the first plane hit. All the conspiracy
> theories are rubbish- mostly because they detract from the real issue, the
> symbolic power of their destruction. Al Queda was hip to this as early as
> 1993- when the morons tried to bring one of them down with a garage bomb
> planted in a rented vehicle, after which they then tried to recoup the
> deposit on! The only people stupider than Al Queda were the various
> security agencies charged with protecting us from them.
>
> Pynchon's most specific reference to the symbolic power of the World Trade
> Center occurs in Chapter 11 (as a self-signifier of moral bankruptcy) of
> M&D- the twin gallows, shimmering on the horizon of St. Helena, the two
> terms- capitalism and slavery- so essential for the western enterprise.
> Reading it post-911 is enough to cause goose bumps- prescient. And don't
> forget that steady wind blowing in (back) from the coast.  So stop changing
> the subject. Al Queda was well aware of the location of our "crotch" and
> it took them two kicks, but they finally caught us right in the balls. If
> there was a conspiracy it was between those flea bitten fanatic
> scumbags and our own stupidity.
>
> Since 911, any critique of the capitalist enterprise has been forced to
> walk gingerly around the issue of sympathy for the devil. But coincidence
> works in strange ways, and the demonic, despite its rabid hatred, is
> sometimes twisted into the agency of The Good- much to its own chargrin.
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 8:34 pm
> Subject: Re: 911 Prewarning
>
>
> *How about discussing the issue in relation to Pynchon's work?
>
> Not that he knows the answers re 9/11, but neither do we, so ...
> *
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> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Against_the_Day_and_September_11
>
> *9/11 in Against the Day*
> On roughly pages 138-155 of *Against the Day*, the Lovecraftian narrative
> about a mysterious power dug up from the ice bears numerous parallels to
> the events of 9/11:
> Page 145: "even reaching the depot would prove an Odyssey. For the streets
> were in mad disorder"
> Page 148: "the bad dream I still try to wake from, the great city brought
> to sorrow and ruin"
> Page 151: "they'd been warned, repeatedly, about just such a possiblity.
> The city more and more vertical, the population growing in density, all
> hostages to just sich an incursion."
> Page 151: "a story taken so for granted that its coming true was the last
> thing anybody expected"
>  Against the Day & the Controlled Demolition Hypothesis
> It has been suggested that the following excerpts might allude to the Controlled
> demolition hypothesis<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_demolition_hypothesis_for_the_collapse_of_the_World_Trade_Center>for the collapse of the WTC:
> Page 85: "some of these explosions, the more deadly of them, in fact, were
> really set off to begin with not by Anarchists but by the owners
> themselves."
> Page 175: "Only slowly would it occur to his ultra-keen detective's
> reasoning that these bombs could have been set by anybody, including those
> who would clearly benefit if "Anarchists", however loosely defined, could
> be blamed for it."
> (...)
>  9/11 and Pynchon's other works
> *Gravity's Rainbow*
> The poem/song that appears on the final page of the book contains an image
> that takes on new meaning post-9/11:
>  *There is a Hand to turn the time,* *Though thy Glass today be run.* *Till
> the Light that hath brought the Towers low* *Find the last poor Pret'rite
> one...* *Till the Riders sleep in ev'ry road,* *All through our crippl'd
> Zone.* *With a face on ev'ry mountainside*, *And a Soul in ev'ry stone*...
> (...)
>
>  ****
>
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