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[jochen stremmel]

There's a difference, I think. You write 24/7 because it's shorter but
you say nine-eleven, too. Sounds flippant, after a while. And
September rhymes with Remember! Like 5 November.

2013/11/16 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> 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>:
>> > 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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