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"I
thought of those writhing figures trapped by molten lava in Pompeii. .."
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Un
anacronismo
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Aquel
reciente 11 de septiembre de 2001 con la vision de aquellas altisimas
torres explotando en sus cuspides, interrumpiendo brutalmente el quehacer
cotidiano de una cosmopolita ciudad; las espesas y oscuras nubes de cenizas
y detritus que inundaron edificios, casas y plazas y el derrumbe de los
edificios sobre estupefactos ciudadanos que murieron sin comprender porque,
recordo a muchos, en su momento, las circunstancias similares por las
que habia atravesado el ultimo dia de Pompeya.
Algunas
escenas de aquel atentado recordaron lo acontecido aquel 24 de agosto del
año 79 D.C.: "It
was an anachronism to the people in New York City, who walked with gremlins
of terror perched hard on their shoulders and three-piece suits covered with
soot like the victims of Pompeii thousands of years ago." Y asi nacieron
las similitudes, algunas de las cuales hemos recogido a traves de testigos,
comentaristas y victimas.
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"...It
was as if I'd happened on a city as devastated and lost as Pompeii. And, I thought,
perhaps I had in some way that we'll never get over no matter how gallantly
we carry on."
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Those
who remained reported that dense plumes from the explosions and building collapses
traveled north to perimeter of the campus. Ash and dust inches deep settled
midway up the entrance ramp, but no further. "This must have been what it was
like in Pompeii," said Scott Anderson, the College's acting vice president for
administration, who supervised an operation that assisted hundreds of police
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"I
thought of the Roman city of Pompeii, choked and then buried under a cloud of
volcanic ash. To choke to death after surviving the actual collapse of the World
Trade Center seemed a tragedy of Sophoclean proportions."
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Black
woman in white face.
Is this Pompeii?
No nothing is preserved.
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"...Two
inches of white ash had snowedonto the streets, muffling noise like ablizzard,
giving a savage day a surrealend."It's like Pompeii," a Battery
ParkCity doorman said"
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Watching clips on TV and hearing people describe the scene as a volcanic explosion
similar to Pompeii, it looks as if it is snowing, and by now the ash and rubble
from the towers has piled up near ten stories high.
People
seem angry, panicked and mostly disbelieving, standing on street corners
or even in the middle of the streets staring at the billowing smoke which
even now continues to fill the sky
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