hat we have known who the Falling Man is all along.
that is is all of us/ any of us
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cenotaph
define: a monument to someone buried elsewhere, especially one commemorating people who died in a war.
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Unknown Soldier
unwilling
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because no one can jump into the arms of God.
what does this mean? You can only see God or go to heaven if you die from anything but suicide?
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She never saw the clothes he was wearing. After she learned that he was dead, she packed his clothes away and never inventoried what specific articles of clothing might be missing.
has she since?
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He had a wife named Hillary.
last description not physical- in order to humanize?
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Or would they be regarded as steps to some act of redemptive witness?
again, identification means redemption- how?
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A manager at Windows looked at the pictures once and said the Falling Man was Wilder Gomez. Then a few days later he studied them closely and changed his mind. Wrong hair. Wrong clothes. Wrong body type. It was the same with Charlie Mauro. It was the same with Junior Jimenez. Junior worked in the kitchen and would have been wearing checked pants. Charlie worked in purchasing and had no cause to wear a white jacket. Besides, Charlie was a very large man. The Falling Man appears fairly stout in Richard Drew's published photo but almost elongated in the rest of the sequence.
so important to name him- if they found absolute proof of who is was, how would the conversation change?
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Besides, he had a sister. He never would have left her alone.
could have not been his choice, she could have died already
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because of her determination to know what happened to her sons on that day
possible she does not know what he was wearing
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On the Internet
so she must have googled it, looked for redemption from others
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My husband did not have an orange shirt."
possible she is lying to keep herself from admitting it to be him
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endured any pain before he jumped out of a window.
so it is possible he jumped out of the window - shes admitting that non-directly as she does not know what pain he did endure
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He could not have died by jumping out a window.
are they seperating the event from the act? Sounds like she is saying "he committed suicide and it is apart from the situation"
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history is a force that does not discriminate
arguable- who tells history, how it is shaped, etc
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reated as essential acts of witness, without particular regard to the sensitivities of those who appeared in them or the surviving families of the dead.
important to the argument of why and when things should be documented
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They couldn't show things like that then….
whos "they", and in fact "they" did.
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Surely they would; surely someone would remember what he was wearing when he went to work on the last morning of his life.....
why so important to identify this one person when the breadth of the arguement is about all the people who fell
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like that of a medieval Christ
another religious implication
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the eleven outtakes
meaning onlhy one frame fit his opinion or abstraction?
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fell
use of words- fall/ fell, etc
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how I feel about my fathe
how does the tumbling woman make her feel about her father?
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Fischl had no right to ambush
must have gotten approval or committee that approved this installation, not all on Fischl
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redemptive
continuous use of this word- those who jumped need our forgiveness
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local horror
local? to who- New Yorkers?
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My September 11 post had made mention of that terrible occurance [sic], so now any pervert looking for that will get my site's URL. I'm disgusted. I tried, but cannot find any reason someone would want to know something like that…. Whatever. If that's why you're here—you're busted. Now go away."
irrelevant opinon
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We don't like to say they jumped
Why is what they call it relevant? Feeling of shame to call it what it most likely is?
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authorities
what authorities?
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tangential
define: hardly touching a matter; peripheral.
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respectful distance
how much distance is respectable?
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"standards guy,
whos that?
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Don't you have any human decency?
thought process - to look away, death should be private or in the shadows or not respected?
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"That piece of shit is not my father."
suicide = cowardice? hell- another religious overtone
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So he went to the funeral.
bold move- was he even invited? Almost trespassing and insensitive
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a torso, an arm
dismemberment like this not likely from the fall- was it from something else?
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digital photograph to a shop that clarified and enhanced it
is the enhanced photo the one in this article?
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God! Save their souls! They're jumping! Oh, please God! Save their souls!
anogther religious reference
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lemminglike
lemming: a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction
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tableau
define: a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history; a tableau vivant.
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, in soul.
suicide= no heaven, christian belief
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destroyed
as were the towers
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It just had that look
art vs documentation
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exploding like a mushroom"
did photographer say this or someone else?
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200mm lens.
good or bad for this shot?
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Chambers Street station
where we are today
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shooting bodies
choice of words - "shooting bodies" - might have doubel meaning?
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