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To: Defiant
They were office space, nothing more,

Nope.

Maybe before they got knocked down, with people jumping out of the top floors you could make such a statement. But, now, such seems a little...cranky(?)

24 posted on 12/22/2002 5:16:51 PM PST by don-o
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To: don-o
Maybe before they got knocked down, with people jumping out of the top floors you could make such a statement. But, now, such seems a little...cranky(?)

Dreher says that they Tolkien would have thought they were symbols of Tyranny. He says this after 9/11. I'm the cranky one? Explain to me how this peripheral statement in his otherwise good article needed to be made? It's not true that they are symbols of tyranny, and I doubt it's true that Tolkien would have thought them so. The Shah's prison, or the Kremlin under the Soviets, or the Tower of London, or even the Confederate Flag could all be said to be symbols of tyranny. But an office building? Only to someone who reads way too much into height.

31 posted on 12/22/2002 5:51:43 PM PST by Defiant
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