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[jochen stremmel]

>Any idea why he goes 11 September vs 9-11?<

1) Because he has 24/7 in the sentence before.

2) Because he regards 9-11 as a cliché, similar to "Ground Zero"?


2013/11/16 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> And Most Importantly, we are not told what to think. We are told what
> current thoughts are happening, without taking sides.
>
>
> On Friday, November 15, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>>>
>>> BUT perhaps it's entirely appropriate (and deliberate) that this abrupt
>>> and STRIKING shift in voice occurs when it does. The novel's
>>> form reflecting the atrocity itself, subjecting the reader to a kind of
>>> authorial violence (we are suddenly told what to think of all this)
>>
>>
>> Wow! & What?  Violence via tone shift?
>>
>> I agree that those three paragraphs read like an essay. P surely knows
>> what he did here in this most central point of his 11-9 novel.  It is
>> admission of ignorance as much as an asking of forgiveness for paranoia.
>> But not a complete retreat.  The Paper of Record is a stand-in for blind
>> consumerism info, his common refrain.
>>
>> Any idea why he goes 11 September vs 9-11?
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