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The non-US way of referring? European dating?---is it also the Middle Eastern way? 
I also think this way of naming   1) adds to this book's feeling--to me---that it is an historical novel  written in a future even more distant than a few years before the year of publication. Like from the Trespassers unknown time from AtD. 

2) And, this event, so central in the consciousness of New Yorkers, of most of us on this list, is
Treated as ....hardly central at all within this novel's story....despite how some reviews speak of it. 
TRP writes of New Yorkers' reactions----and the smell ( of death) in the air....
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On Nov 16, 2013, at 4:34 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> 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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