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"When daybreak came we were zooming through New Jersey with the great cloud of
Metropolitan New York rising before us in the snowy distance. Dean had a sweater
wrapped around his ears to keep warm. He said we were a band of Arabs coming in
to blow up New York." On the Road, 1950, Jack Kerouac

Or just coincidence, under influence of boose and drugs?

the opening scene of one of my favourite films "the big lebowski" (which came out in 1998) takes place in a supermarket.

as the film's anti-hero jeff bridges (who plays one of two guys in the movie called Jeff Lebowski) is about to pay for something by cheque, the film cuts to a shot of President George Bush Snr talking about the first gulf war on tv, before cutting back to Lebowski writing out the cheque - and dating it 9/11/1991 - exactly 10 years to the day before the attacks on the WTC....

Pieter, coincidence? Why did Kerouac choose "Arabs blowing up?"
Raytan, was 9/11 an anniversary of any event then?
Carl

I can't remember if anything else of world significance happened on a previous 9/11.

I also forgot to mention that there's a surreal fantasy/dream sequence later on in the film in which the dude (lebowski) goes to a bowling alley and gets his bowling shoes handed to him by saddam hussein....


it's not surprising that some people think nostradamus predicted 9/11....

http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/nostradamus.htm

Raytan, yep! IMO many of Nostradamus' predictions are correct Carl

Muslim Brotherhood & Baath Party in Mideast were talking about doing this in 1950 but they weren't fully organized & it wasn't publicized. I knew then.

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Maybe Kerouac was a visionary Carl!
I like big Lebovski, because Julian Moore is one of my favorite actresses. (I love her playing an older porn actress in Boogie Nights). My tast for women, yes Red heads.

Beatiful white skin, read hair and Fuiji blue eyes!

she's hot - in both movies! I love "boogie nights" too....