This event is called a “movie” in a George Gerbner essay that concludes a book on this event, Triumph of the Image. Paul Patton’s introduction to a book about this event discusses its author’s claim that writing about it was a “stupid gamble.” A book claims that, on the Richter scale, this event “would not even reach two or three” (-5[1])and calls it emblematic of our “logic of weak events.” The claim that, with this event, (15[1])a space has become definitively (15[1])(*) “non-Euclidean” is mocked (-5[1])in a book by Bricmont and Sokal. (10[1])An author who chose to witness this event from his apartment (-5[1])wrote a trio of essays about it whose (10[1])titles differ in their verb tense and riff on a Jean (10[1])Giraudoux play. (10[1])Those essays (10[1])argue (10[1])that this event came to (-5[1])be dominated by a media-generated (10[1]0[2])simulacrum. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])the provocative title (10[1])of a collection (10[1])by Jean (10[1])Baudrillard claims that what conflict “did not take place?” (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[3])