9/11 (SPOILER ALERT)

[Otto]

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2013/9/11 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
> "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