[spectre] Re: friends in NYC

[Rafael Lozano-Hemmer]

Just heard from Manuel Delanda who is OK, as is Phil Grauer.

Meanwhile Kabul is being bombed so we are assured more innocent 
people will continue to die. Somos mierda.

--Rafael

ps Here are some quotes from the World Trade Center "Living Archive" 
at http://ericdarton.net/ some seem so ironic today

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I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and 
consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a 
bigger purpose than just to provide room for tenants. The World Trade 
Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace ... 
beyond the compelling need to make this a monument to world peace, 
the World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a 
representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual 
dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and through 
cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
- Minoru Yamasaki, chief architect of the World Trade Center

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Building skyscrapers is the nearest peacetime equivalent of war.
- Col. William H. Starrett, Skyscrapers & the Men Who Build Them, 1928.

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Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance 
between the social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the 
skyscrapers in our cities toppling?
- Richard Wright, Native Son

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