NYC Tragedy - Comment by Michael Kay Louis
[Dream target date -16 September 2001]

When the twin towers collapsed we watched it live on the TV, INCREDIBLE. But it was impossible to take the size of the tragedy in. The following day we went up to Highlawn Pavillion in West Caldwell New Jersey. At this point you're 300ft up and about 30mls from NYC. There was a long pilgrimage line of sullen people making their way up to the look out point. A few were chatting over the small details of a tragedy like this. Where they were when it happened, the authorities should be doing more, etc. But it was all just a talking cure for trying to get through such a huge event.

Then the stunning sight of a huge veil of smoke hundreds of feet high drawn across the lower part of the city came into view. All at once the understanding became apparent, one persons death is a tragedy thousands are a statistic. Most people were just standing around not saying very much trying to get to grips with what they had in front of them. Then through the eternal silence that surrounded all of us a plane took off and it's deafening defiant sound echoed the sentiment - We will go on.

[Mike Kay Louis (aka Mike Millward) attended Leeds School of Fine Art 1980 - 83 where, looking like the 'Bastard son of Joseph Stalin' (sic), he scripted several art performances exploring political conflict. He now lives in New Jersey with his family where he works as an Art Director]

'An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind'
[Dream target date -21 September 2001]

Standing on the precipice of violent reprisals, lets reflect on the above line from Mahatma Gandhi.

Contribution by Jon Dobson
[Dream target date -18 September 2001]

Jonny Boy asks us to learn about the shocking misogynist 'barbarism' of the Taliban and shares this alleged prediction from Nostradamus;

'In the year of the new century and nine months, From the sky will come a great King of Terror... The sky will burn at forty-five degrees. Fire approaches the great new city...In the city of york there will be a great collapse, 2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos, while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb third big war will begin when the big city is burning'

Contribution by Emma Clark
[Dream target date -16 September 2001]

Emma shares this quote with us; 'So instead of listening to cowboy pieties...we turn to those who...understand, especially when they hear the word 'revenge' thundered by talk-show warriors, that the best, the only revenge, when you're fighting a cult that fetishises death, is life.' - Simon Schama