In a piece published on the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Martin Amis described the space that opened up on the New York skyline in the wake of the collapse of the Twin Towers as a ‘window on a changed world’. An allusion to the name of the restaurant that used to occupy the top floor of the North Tower, this image was intended to register the sense of exposure and fallibility felt by many Westerners in the weeks and months after 9/11. As Amis put it: ‘The collateral catastrophe of September 11 is our sudden introduction to a barely recognisable planet, a planet which is not going to leave us alone.’ [More here.]
Note: Picture reprinted with permission from Nadia Shira Cohen, whose photoessay 'Flee' appears in Granta 116.
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Hi, I am from Melbourne. I have been here before. I always read your essays in the Oz.
Please find an Open Letter which was written in response to the Kosovo crisis at the request of a high ranking UNHCR diplomat. It was reworked in response to Sept 11.
www.dabase.org/openlett.htm
The various themes touched upon in this Letter eventually expanded into the remarkable book introduced here.
www.dabase.org/not2p1.htm
www.beezone.com/AdiDa/reality-humanity.html
Plus this talk which was given at the time of the Stone Buddhas incident in Afghanistan
www.adidamla.org/newsletters/toc-aprilmay2006.html
A related essay on the origins of the mind-set that has created the situation described above
www.aboutadidam.org/readings/bridge_to_god/index.html
Plus another essay on the cultural, artistic and literary relevance of the above author
www.adidaupclose.org/Literature_Theater/skalsky.html
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