9/11 (SPOILER ALERT)

[Dave Monroe]

"TUESDAY MORNING THEY ALL CONVOY over to Kugelblitz together, hang
around the stoop till the bell rings, Vyrva peels away to grab a bus
across town, Maxine heads for work, puts her head in a local smoke
shop to grab a newspaper, and finds everybody freaking out and
depressed at the same time. Something bad is going on downtown. 'A
plane just crashed into the World Trade Center,' according to the
Indian guy behind the counter." (BE, Ch. 29, p. 315)

http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594204234,00.html

Now, those of fascistic disposition - or merely those among us who
remain all too readyto justify any government action, whether right or
wrong - will immediately point out thatthis is prewar thinking, and
that the moment enemy bombs begin to fall on one's

homeland, altering the landscape and producing casualties among
friends and neighbours,all this sort of thing, really, becomes
irrelevant, if not indeed subversive. With thehomeland in danger,
strong leadership and effective measures become of the essence, andif
you want to call that fascism, very well, call it whatever you please,
no one is likely to be listening, unless it's for the air raids to be
over and the all clear to sound.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/100899/Pynchons-Intro-to-Orwells-1984

"This city, even on the best of days, had always been known for its
background rumble of anxiety. . . . The city more and more vertical,
the population growing in density, all hostages to just such an
incursion…. Who outside the city would have imagined them as victims
taken by surprise—who, for that matter, inside it? Though many in the
aftermath did profit briefly by assuming just that affecting pose. . .
. Fire and blood were about to roll like fate upon the complacent
multitudes. Just as the peak of the evening rush-hour, electric power
failed everywhere throughout the city, and as the gas mains began to
ignite and the thousand local winds, distinct at every street-corner,
to confound prediction, cobblestones erupted skyward, to descend
blocks away in seldom observed yet beautiful patterns. . . .Later,
fire alarms would go unanswered and the firemen on the front lines
find themselves too soon without reinforcements, or the hope of any."
(AtD, pp. 151-2)

http://www.academia.edu/886476/_Theres_an_Empty_Space_Where_America_Used_to_Be_Art_and_Terrorism_in_Thomas_Pynchons_Against_the_Day_2006_and_Don_DeLillos_Falling_Man_2007_

“No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.”

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Against_the_Day_description

... a-and (apocryphal):

Most News Is Propaganda. Bin Laden May Not Exist

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pynchon_Playboy_Interview