The moment came and I handed over my copy of the book and believe I said, "Mr. A few people had managed to convey a sentence or two in their brief moment with the master, and I worried about a failure of confidence, while entertaining a daydream that he might read the piece on his way home, become transfixed and ecstatic, and help me to become a published author at 20. He read from Cosmopolis, I bought a copy, and I got in line to have him sign it. I had recently put out my first ambitious larger-scale piece of writing entitled " Autointoxication," which reprinted a page or two from White Noise as a kind of reverse epigraph, and I wanted him to see it, and hoped that he wouldn't sue me. I had the pleasure of meeting DeLillo briefly at the Union Square Barnes & Noble on his promotional tour for that book in April or May of 2003.
One could even point to 2003's Cosmopolisas a warning for the financial crisis that would occur five years later on Wall St. Still, one might consider DeLillo's Mao II, which posits the author and terrorist as being spiritual brothers, and his most recent novel Falling Man, which uses 9/11 as a launching pad for the narrative, as further proof that all of his writing is intricately connected in a cryptogrammic maze. Did DeLillo know that the 1994 attacks would be repeated? Was the choice of cover photograph a bit of precognitive excess? Is DeLillo the prophet of our times? The reader of Underworld will find few clues to support these wild, supernatural questions. In the literary world, the cover of Don DeLillo's 1997 tome Underworld spooked anyone aware of its existence-a stark black and white photo of the World Trade Center, a cross atop of church steeple in front, a bird with what seems a very large wingspan feet from the building, and a huge mess of fog enveloping the scene so the tops are not visible. Songs like "Ashes of American Flags" and "Jesus, Etc." seemed eerily topical. The cover of that album is the famous twin tower parking garage in Chicago. People said that Wilco's album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot prefigured the event.
In the weeks following 9/11, thousands of desperate conspiracy theorists pointed towards a variety of signs and signifiers as proof that the attack had been pre-ordained.
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