http://grammar.about.com/od/shortpassagesforanalysis/a/ebwnycpass07.htmHere's what E.B White, author of Charlotte's Web had to say in 1949.
"The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now; in the sounds of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest editions."
And one more...
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/020331/dmag14.htmThomas Merton, died 1968
“How are they down, how have they fallen down
Those great strong towers of ice and steel,
And melted by what terror and what miracle?
What fires and light tore down,
With the white anger of their sudden accusation,
Those towers of silver and steel?
The ashes of levelled towers still curl with tufts of smoke”.
