A photo from Friday night... by Bobby Williams...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
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The most beautiful and elegant monument.
ReplyDelete- East Villager
Yeah, a salute to tyranny and the coup d'etat. Keep drinking the flouride and don't worry, just because your every email and phone call gets recorded by the govt now, don't worry, just drink some more flouride.
ReplyDelete"Yeah, a salute to tyranny and the coup d'etat."
ReplyDeleteyeah, that's what those lights are about.
honestly, nygrump is a parody account right? my favorite part of this site.
i love this monument. i don't know how to be cynical about it.
ReplyDeletei also miss the twin towers floral mural on bowery and...6th?
The mural was on the side of 35 Cooper Square, Marjorie... Despite protests, Cooper Union decided to paint over it with an ad.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo, Bobby.
ReplyDeleteNygrump, I find myself in accord with your posts more often than not, but this one I cannot let go unremarked. The WTC in Lights is a testament and memorial not to governments, policies, religious beliefs or fluoridated water. It is a heartfelt and poignant tribute to those who were murdered on 9-11 for no other reason except that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They paid the ultimate price for whatever US policies set the Middle East aflame, misguided or not, but they were not directly responsible for their implementation. A friend who lost a husband on 9-11 once confided to me that she took comfort in those beams, stretching up to Heaven, because it was her belief that, once a year, her husband was able to see them and know he had not been forgotten and was still loved. Would you argue with someone like that, who suffered such a loss (as I am guessing you did not), whose grief is present to this day? To me, those beams are not unlike life - they appear one day, and are there for a while, but then, as the sun rises they weaken, finally to be subsumed by the growing dawn until they disappear altogether. To have them on the skyline yearly can be taken as a tribute, a reminder of the fleeting fragility of life, or a memorial to a horrendous happening - I don't know anyone who looks at is in such a negative and sour fashion as you, and I am sorry for you that you cannot get beyond your feelings and try to understand what those beams mean to so many of us. You are missing a tremendously moving experience.
ReplyDeleteLovely photo indeed. Thank you, Mr. Williams.
@nygrump:
ReplyDeleteYeah, what she (gojira) said.
I'm not one to dismiss every 9/11 conspiracy theory nor to ignore the coziness between the Bush family and the Saudi royals -- DON'T GET ME STARTED - but I find these lights to be the most sublime memorial to fellow citizens lost since Maya Lin.
I can without the reading of the names, however, from here on out. That is just self-flagellation.