Testimonial
Egents look for the third (obtuse) meaning of the disaster or aporia
(problem), taken as an image, that triggers an involuntary memory of the
egents' personal history. Some detail of the public disaster outside is
recognized as a figure for the egents' inner experience (the disaster in me).

The pom-pom Y traced on the streets near ground zero is a "peripheral"
(it adds commemorative functionality to the site). Will Pappenheimer
combines the placement of the Y with a testimonial, using the chance
operations generated by information related to the site and disaster as
divination zone to which to pose a burning (personal) question. His
question constitutes a strange attractor. The image (tenor and vehicle)
resulting from this consultation gives the surplus value of a cognitive
map, an attunement (Stimmung) that temporarily manifests the meta-
physical order of the world at the moment of a wish.

my mother's maiden name: Palmer, as in "one who lays poms," proper: pomer