“For those thousands in the south tower, the second plane meant the end of everything. For us, its glint was the worldflash of a coming future.”

— Martin Amis

"Fear and loathing" (2001)
Context: For those thousands in the south tower, the second plane meant the end of everything. For us, its glint was the worldflash of a coming future.
Terrorism is political communication by other means. The message of September 11 ran as follows: America, it is time you learned how implacably you are hated. United Airlines Flight 175 was an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile aimed at her innocence. That innocence, it was here being claimed, was a luxurious and anachronistic delusion.

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