Response to # 2

For me the most poignant part of Delillo's Baader-Meinhof was the aftermath of the peculiar goings on in the protagonists apartment, how "She saw everything twice." Undoubtedly every New Yorker who was in the city for the 9/11 attacks sees everything twice perhaps not as much now, but certainly very clearly for the years immediately ensuing. Delillo writes "Nearly everything in the room had a double effect-what it was and the association it carried in her mind..." she often curses the man "Bastard" or in a New Yorkers mind "Bastards." I'm not sure if one can majke a direct comparison between the trauma of 9/11 and a stranger masturbating in your home but Delillos description of the aftermath can certainly be interpreted as similar. All New Yorkers can see their block on a regular day but also posess the ability to see it with dust and blood covered people, snipers on buildings, general tumult and confusion, hopeless people, Delillo, when describing the two paintings of Baader, writes about a feeling of "disparity or uncertainty" feelings one perhaps feels in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, therefore he chose a suitable subject matter in the paintings as the group was considered to be a terrorist organization.