I think like anyone, 9:11 capitivated me. I think like most people apart from a few mad Americans who actually want to be at war, I’m fed up of hearing about it.
I’m not interested in conspiracies or recreations or tragic tales. So why did I read
this book then? Perhaps I am interested after all? – Maybe, those wierd days, when we kept being told ‘The world is different now,’ those odd few hours, when it was all but impossible to work out was going on did require some reflection upon.
Now, Delillo - hmm, I read Underworld, and thought it half a book of staggering insight and half a bit dull. Some of his other stuff is, well, pretentious.
And I like pretention, but well, I dunno, Dellilo seems sometimes like, pre packaged philosophising and all grand, over - blown conclusions where none really, actually exist. His characters seem to spend a lot of time coming to giant realisations [...]
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Falling Man : Don Delillo
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