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Difficult to move with the screens, no doubt. The story was now available in animated form of course, so what hope secondhand paper? Sales will be declining for the foreseeable future, shipping in bulk to the Philippines and Africa. The searchers in some corners needed human voice and presence, men like Tamil Joseph, who has been doing a power of work at the Haig recent days, sitting on one of the sheltered walkway benches, or else concrete stubs on the void deck. Chinese usually were in greatest need, though Joe reported Indians and Malays too. A lady in the neighbourhood had recently thrown away her walking-stick; another pair overcome kidney-stones and asthma. Up in Ahmadabad, Gujarat last month there had been great numbers moved by the power of the Lord, Joseph reported. Joseph’s was an evangelical church with some sort of reach. Down in the basement at the library The Art of Cutting on the shelf opposite wouldn’t be of the destructive, contemporary kind. (Made you wonder how young Alice down in Melbourne was doing, picked up once with her father who didn’t have a car from a youth psychiatric facility.) Here there was little evidence, the young possibly coping better with the family holding more firm and what remained of community not completely extinguished. Continuing slowly with Baudrillard down in the bowels on comfortable couches, wonderful flashes of the French venturesomeness, naturally relevant for this polis here: In terms of collective drama, we can say that the horror for the 4,000 victims of those towers (9/11) was inseparable from the horror of living in them—the horror of living and working in sarcophagi of concrete and steel. Were they cutting more than the strictly controlled media was reporting, especially with the curb on substances?... It (the complacency of the American position) comes from the fact that the Other, like Evil, is unimaginable. It all comes from the impossibility of conceiving of the Other—friend or enemy—in its radical otherness, in its irreconcilable foreignness. A refusal rooted in the total identification with oneself around moral values and technical power. That is the America that takes itself for America and which, bereft of otherness, eyes itself with the wildest compassion.
Hypotheses on Terror, p. 63 Ibid.
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