10.
You are alone. There is a wide circle around you. You are a flaming building, going down. Everyone wants to stay away from you because you give off heat and anger and sadness. You are combusting from within. Slowly falling.
The picture that really got to you was the one of the man diving from the top floor of one of the towers. He was diving straight down, his arms at his side. A graceful dive, headfirst. The Falling Man. Captured on film. A still photograph of a man in uniform, a chef’s outfit perhaps (he may have worked at the restaurant on top of the tower, they say later), as he dove purposefully to his death. That’s the photograph that made time stand still for you. That’s the photograph that made you want to stop everything, that made you want to climb into a shell like a hermi
