"What happened on September 11? On September 11 — what happened? Picture this: two upended matchboxes, knocked over by the sheer force of paper-darts. Only it was much, much worse than that. In fact, words alone cannot adduce how much worse it was than that. September 11 was an attack on words: we felt a general deficit. And with words destroyed, we had to make do, we had to bolster truth with colons and repetition: not only repetition: but repetition and: colons. This is what we adduce."
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Terrorism in the United States2000s in the United StatesIslamic terrorist incidents in 2001September 11 attacks
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Martin Amis in "The world: an explanation" in The Daily Telegraph (8 March 2003)
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