Apophenia

William Gibson’s 2003 Pattern Recognition is set in a post 9/11 New York. It plays with the idea that humans need to make sense of randomness, to build meaningful connections out of apparently disconnected events—all the more so in the aftermath of a tragedy. And Gibson understood how surreal watching the destruction of the Towers is: “It will be like watching one of her own dreams on television. Some vast and deeply personal insult to any ordinary notion of interiority. An experience outside of culture.” /Business Standard/