The City
Martin McPhillips
The calmest place in the world right now is
New York City.
Everyone in the City is moving at the same
pace. Everyone has his game face on. The streets
are crowded.
It's a big city. What you see burning on the
southern tip of Manhattan is, literally, just
one square out of a thousand.
But to be here and see the two towers go down
was ghastly and numbing. I could see, from the
very first, that the fire buring inside the
first tower that was hit would consume the
building. There was no way that it could
ever be extinguished that high up. And then
it became clear that the fire was just
burning right through the steel and that
the floors above would come down.
Yet the second building hit came down first. No
shock. I could have watched the first building hit
come down but it was a foregone conclusion that
it would so I left the roof of my building not
wanting to see it, only to then see it live on TV.
Living here you tend to forget that this is a
tough town, with tough people. The hospitals
are turning away blood donors. If they put
out a call for anything, they'll have more
of it than they need in an hour.
The buses and subways are running. The grocery
stores are open. And the memory of people jumping
from 80 stories will be with us until and after
the last terrorist is dead.
John H. McCloskey
A very sobering day, even if even the yesterday unquestionably "authoritative"
Onion Square Journal itself says so only on the _afflatus_ of Planet Dilbert
inrtoxication. A tough town. a very stiff-upper-lip Tory Brit VRWC kind of
town. But nevertheless probably not quite exactly a HEARTLAND Señorito
Dilberto kinda town. And here NYC is devastated down below the belt in its
Wall Street vitals! (Perhaps the terrorists aimed exactly right? Perhaps they
even Freudianized about the geography of Manhattan?)
But what do I know? And what do _you_ know for sure, O America?
John D.
"John H. McCloskey" <elchipod...@aol.com2600> wrote in message
(snip)
> But what do I know? And what do _you_ know for sure, O America?
>
That payback for them is going to be hell...unimaginable hell.
Fuck em!
John D.
Who Cares
news:tpt9d6c...@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> > But what do I know? And what do _you_ know for sure, O America?
>
> That payback for them is going to be hell...unimaginable hell.
Agreed.
Our arab terrorists pals have misjudged
American culture to a surprising degree.
What an amazing bunch of knuckleheads.
They've accomplished nothing except to
unify the country against them
Christ, I hope Bush cuts loose and
just *eradicates* these clowns
from the earth now.
johnz~
Martin McPhillips <jour...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
Well, they're turning away blood donors here in Seattle, as well.
JS
>If they put
> out a call for anything, they'll have more
> of it than they need in an hour.
>
> The buses and subways are running. The grocery
> stores are open. And the memory of people jumping
> from 80 stories will be with us until and after
> the last terrorist is dead.
--
A Short History Of The United States of America:
"Laugh all you want...I'm the one goin' down in history
as the Thomas Jefferson of squirrels."
johnz~
Martin lives in downtown New York. You might want to remember that, when
you're talking about "authoritative".
JS