What is happening, when terror appalls and slaughters, yet keeps silent? When all this goes on without symbols, without language, without theater? Kuta, Bali, 12 October 2002, and Manhattan, New York, 11 September 2001: how different.

When the twin World Trade Center buildings that soared nearly half a kilometer high were smashed by two planes and three thousand people died, with those tall beacon-like buildings burning and collapsing in su