ABSTRACT
We all remember the images of 11 September 2001; those of us who saw them live on TV or endlessly recycled on television channels for days. Paul Virilio says of these images that the attack on the Pentagon in Washington, DC was of little consequence compared to ‘what exploded in people’s minds’ in seeing the destruction of the World Trade Center (2002: 82). Because there were two towers, two images remain with us: a fiery explosion in one of the World Trade towers, high up; and then a momentary sighting of an aircraft flying low from behind the second tower, and, as it disappeared, a terrible fire ball exiting the front of the tower.
