that of the cosmopolitan horizon that is less than that of empty space With a silver sheen atmosphere of brilliant consensus- pensile, super-celeric The changing of space that is pure erotics Everyone has her way of seeming to be on another planet To take the distance needed to see that our skyline is self-designing withour ever closing in on itself Manhattan is not an island! omething beyond violence emerging in the very centre of the process of globalization ! place of e"tradition and rendition, a cosmopolitan ecstasy testifying of the orbiting of our urban life With a energy that is a form of catastrophe a forefeeling, but an e"alted one that of a collective sacrifice#