![]() ![]() ![]() nobility which is our spiritual height and depth and while I know how difficult it is to express it, nevertheless I am bound to give a sense of it. Wallace Stevens wrote that "the peculiarity of the imagination is nobility. So when the number is released it is a sieve that cannot hold the loss of us, the loss Giuliani recognized and answered for. Physically and emotionally we cannot bear it, should in fact never have this capacity. And then there are three thousand of us dead and it is incomprehensible and ungraspable. It is true that we carry the idea of us along with us. His reply-More than we can bear-caused me to turn and look at him as if for the first time. Still, a day after the attack on the World Trade Center a reporter asked him to estimate the number of dead. ![]() ![]() It is difficult to separate him out from the extremes connected to the city over the years of his mayorship. When my stop arrives I am still considering Giuliani as nobility. I am telling you we would have seen it happen. The other one says that if Giuliani did they would have seen it on television. They all had to, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Mick Jagger. On the bus two women argue about whether Rudy Giuliani had to kneel before the Queen of England when he was knighted. ![]()
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