Comments on: 9/11, Breughel and Auden http://www.wordyard.com/2006/09/13/911-breughel-and-auden/ Technology, politics, culture Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:33:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: timjack http://www.wordyard.com/2006/09/13/911-breughel-and-auden/#comment-173 timjack Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:09:20 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1120#comment-173 http://ejscoffeelounge.us/nwo/911answers.html http://ejscoffeelounge.us/nwo/911answers.html

]]> By: Cosmopoetica » 9/11 and Breughel http://www.wordyard.com/2006/09/13/911-breughel-and-auden/#comment-172 Cosmopoetica » 9/11 and Breughel Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:35:11 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1120#comment-172 [...] Scott Rosenberg draws a connection between a Breughel and a photo taken on 9/11. He also points to one of my favorite Auden poems about the painting: Musee des Beaux Arts. The parallel between my feelings about 9/11 and the poem/painting are clear and raw. 9/11 was a horrific, tragic event. But it, like any event, is subject to perspective. As far away as I was (and am), with no one I am directly connected to lost, the event remains remote. [...] [...] Scott Rosenberg draws a connection between a Breughel and a photo taken on 9/11. He also points to one of my favorite Auden poems about the painting: Musee des Beaux Arts. The parallel between my feelings about 9/11 and the poem/painting are clear and raw. 9/11 was a horrific, tragic event. But it, like any event, is subject to perspective. As far away as I was (and am), with no one I am directly connected to lost, the event remains remote. [...]

]]> By: Jim Treacher http://www.wordyard.com/2006/09/13/911-breughel-and-auden/#comment-171 Jim Treacher Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:38:38 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1120#comment-171 "The people in Hoepker's photo may have been fully engaged with the events of 9/11 at the instant the image was captured, but the image itself tells a different story, one of people at a safe remove from tragedy, unaffected visibly by it." Or: Fake but accurate. “The people in Hoepker’s photo may have been fully engaged with the events of 9/11 at the instant the image was captured, but the image itself tells a different story, one of people at a safe remove from tragedy, unaffected visibly by it.”

Or: Fake but accurate.

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