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Phillipe Petit's reaction to 9/11

posted 8 years ago by gramma_pushing60
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After seeing the movie, I checked these boards to see if anyone posted about how the artist felt after the towers fell. I couldn't find any posts but found this elsewhere.

"My towers became our towers. I saw them collapse ? hurling, crushing thousands of lives. Disbelief preceded sorrow for the obliteration of the buildings, perplexity descended before rage at the unbearable loss of life."Besides paying tribute to those who were killed, Petit also called for a rebuilding of the towers, promising that "When the towers again twin-tickle the clouds, I offer to walk again, to be the expression of the builders' collective voice. Together, we will rejoice in an aerial song of victory."

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"Sometimes, I guess, there just aren't enough rocks."

[–] IsoldeJaneHolland 8 years ago

I actually first heard about Petit's feat about a week after 9/11, when I was pretty much watching CNN 24/7, and they said,"Coming up, an interview with the man who walked on a wire between the Towers thirty years ago." And I'm like,"Wait.....WHAT???"  I'd never heard about that. And of course they showed clips before and after the contemporary interview.

Some people might be interested to watch the Modern Family episode Phil on a Wire, where big kid Phil Dunphy becomes entranced by a documentary about Petit and eventually is able to walk an eight foot high wire in his front yard. third episode of the third season.

[–] rmontro 8 years ago

Phillipe's words are eloquent, but him offering to walk again if they are rebuilt would seem like a reason not to rebuild them.