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Jenna Hanlon (no login)
Posted Apr 18, 2007 2:35 PM
I wanted to raise the question of the editorial process that removed the sex scene under the desk just before the towers collapse. It is interesting that although there is an humiliating simplicity (as Lauren has pointed out) to human life, that some of the most basic and trivial acts of the living are too much for audiences to handle. If this book had not been censored would you guys have liked the novel any better/less? What do you think a scene like that adds to a work speaking directly from the attacks? Is it appropriate?
On page 116, the authors running commentary about the Cold War complex and how with the dissolution of the singular enemy has led to the “American Goliath to be slain” and goes on to include biblical referencing, unveiling the hypocrisy of modernity. After going so far with technology and new media, what will be “after” if the US is ever submitted to take over? Can modernity ever really be taken back??
“Even if I go deep, deep into the horror, my book will always remain 1,350 feet below the truth.” (119) The reason this book is successful is because it is written in a sort of Tim O’Brien style: the author narrator who is safe to realize that life around him is terror, and gore but is able to craft a beauty within it, even out of the most sickening imagery.
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