Links With Your Coffee - Thursday
- Powers of Empathy—By Wyatt Mason (Harper's Magazine)
“It’s beyond my skills as a writer to capture that day,” begins a sentence that stopped me this weekend and made me break into a very earnest smile. And then there’s the sentence that preceded it:
And then, on September 11, 2001, the world fractured. It’s beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day, and the days that would follow—the planes, like specters, vanishing into the steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear.
I very much like the rhetorical strategy employed here: admit defeat, and then march to victory.
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Comments
For some reason, when reading the Harper's piece, my first quick flash was that Bush was the writer and my brain did a fast transition to - I think we all sold Bush short, and then sanity returned....
Jill,
I had a similar experience. For some reason the 'elect' part of "president elect" didn't register. It's an interesting cognitive dissonance.
:) I'm glad not to have been the only one on that very short but dramatic rollercoaster...
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