In the Shadow of No Towers

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Just finished reading Art Spiegelman's latest. The guy is pschizo nuts. But he knows it, and it embodies the fears and sense of 9/11 very well. Most of you would never agree with his viewpoint. Heck, I'm one of the more liberal here (which is really weird to say) and I think he's off the deep end. But his composition, his reference, the ideas he pulls in, the man is brilliant at expressing a paranoia that he knows is a paranoia.

I enjoyed it. As a work of art/writing, it's amazing. And this quote:

"Since every Eden has its snake, one must somehow learn to live in harmony with that snake!"
He knows his views are freaky. He's trying to see how to live in peace in a world that produces tragedies like the Holocaust and the WTC bombing, and then reacts to those tragedies in ways he finds abhorrent, with more anti-semitism and war. For all that, he still thinks there's a way he can be at peace.