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ephlis01 SUMMER/FALL 2001 (THE LOST ISSUE): Part 5

Page 8: Addendum inserted following 9/11/01 (Downtown font, with black and white close-up image of facade of WTC):

SKYSCRAPERS STAND PROUD

The skyscrapers stand proud.


They seem to say they have sought the absolute and made it their own.


Yet they are blameless, innocent as dumb steel and the dumber concrete of the bastions.


“Man made us,” they murmer. “We are proud only as man is proud and we have no more found the absolute than has man.


CARL SANDBERG