Archive for September 11th, 2006
From 2001 October 7: I Want to Speak Now
Monday, September 11th, 20062001 October 7:
I want to speak now.
I have wanted to speak since September 11. The words would not come. The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was, almost literally, unthinkable. And language is the substrate of thought. Scholars have often claimed that what you cannot say, you cannot think. I have learned, [...]
And the Sky Swept Clear of Angels : 9/11, 5 Years, and Lost Worlds
Monday, September 11th, 2006Though exiled to the swamps of New Jersey, I am a native New Yorker; and so this date arrives every year like a punch in the gut. I no longer think of the attacks every day, but it took 18 months before that ceased. When I do think of them, I am immediately [...]