Today, Twelve Years Ago

Borrowing from Michiko Kakutani in this morning's New York Times:

"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. It is too late. The Evacuation still proceeds, but it's all theater. … He's afraid of the way the glass will fall--soon--it will be a spectacle: the fall of a crystal palace. But coming down in total blackout, without one glint of light, only great invisible crashing."

--Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"

Comments

[jb]

I read that same article this morning on the A train which runs by the WTC. The review of Pynchon's new book was so-so. Talk to you soon.