Has the Road Been Taken or Not?
I'm not sure what to think about this story in the New York Times (registration may be required). A 9/11 widow finds a sheath of poems by her late husband, who died in the destruction of the World Trade Center, and has them published. The message seems so obvious and heavy-handed to me that I wonder if it's real and not some publicity stunt. But then again, it is the New York Times and the book is published by the Cornell University library. I know they say you can't judge a book by its cover (this one looks like a Successories poster), but a passage like this one from the Times piece makes my inner sophomore cough, "bullshit!" Am I a craven bastard?On Sept. 13, she walked into their backyard and screamed, "Eamon, where are you?" Just then, a gust of wind came from nowhere, blew her skirt and hair with ferocity, and subsided. "I knew," she said. "My father always told me that when people die, they could communicate through the wind. I went inside and told everyone to stop making calls, that he was gone."