BE Spoiler (if that's possible now)

[David Morris]

9-11 isn't a cliche, it's a convention, just like 24/7.  11 September is
just a bit cumbersome.

On Saturday, November 16, 2013, jochen stremmel wrote:

> >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 <javascript:;>>:
> > 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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