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.


Fear and loathing (2001)

Martin Amis Quotes

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....

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....

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....

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....