[Austin-ghetto-list] from tinkers to evers to chance
Michael Eisenstadt
michaele@ando.pair.com
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:48:49 -0500
Ewee one upped Roger in the Excitable Boy
sweepstakes.
as the price of oil plummeted 15%
meanwhile Mohammed Atta whose masters in
urban planning was accepted by his univ
with the top grade of 1.0 often expressed his
hatred of highrise architecture, such
as public housing in Hambourg where he lived
since the mid 90s and in his MA thesis
which was on the redevelopment of a quaint
section of Aleppo in Syria. He railed
against modern highrise hotels there
sullying the 'hood of old Aleppo.
He needed help with his German for the
thesis so he worked with a German woman
over his manuscript for a long time. Late
in the re-writing of it, he put in a quote
from the Coar-ann in the front. He also
met an attractive Palestinian woman also
involved in city planning in Aleppo but
he turned her down for a wife as too
modern.
So we can guess at the contents of his
letter which he left in the white Nissan
at Logan airport said to be dated 1996.
yes believe it or not, the whole idear
was dreamed up by Atta in 1996.
so my original surmise that it was life
imitating The Fountainhead novel and
film by Ayn Rand where the architect
blows up "his" building because they
didnt follow his plans turns out to be
correct.
Mike "Nostradamus" Eisenstadt