From the Guardian's letters pages...
From the Guardian's letters pages, via linkmachinego: The omnipotence of American culture and childhood innocence ended in our house on September 11. I sat with my young son watching the images from the World Trade Centre. Suddenly we saw people hanging from the windows at the top of the stricken tower. "Mum," he said, "where's Spiderman? He could save them." Later, as I tucked him up in bed, he asked sleepily, "Is Spiderman not real, mum?" [link]
