"There is something transcendent and awe-full about a catastrophe as monstrous as this, and we can't resist it"
"There is something transcendent and awe-full about catastrophe. An event like this, in which more than 100,000 people are killed and many more afflicted, shatters our everyday picture of reality and exposes the tenuous purchase of all truth claims.
A few years ago, a high Turkish official put it elegantly. "All ideological arguments," he was quoted as saying in The New York Times, "were flattened by the earthquake."
Newsday.com - Opinion
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