I have lain in bed sick as a dog. So as to increase the rapidity of the recuperation I partook of some the musical entertainment from a popular work of the day. In this instance the music in question was one associated with that long established franchise known in the original language as pocket monsters, though more colloquially as Pokémon.
One of the titles, that associated with the tower sequence in the Black 2 and White 2 entries, came on the musical recording player and it caused I to ponder. Such pondering however was unable to resolve itself, accordingly I am opening my thoughts for others to consider.
The location of the game is known within the confines of the fiction as Unova. While fictional it is considered a thinly veiled stand in for the colony city of New York, matters of allegory or not shall be left for another session. Within the history of said city there was a small matter of an attack on a landmark, though said matter has since characterised a considerable portion of the approach it, and the rest of the colonies, have taken to the world and has taken a place of elevated importance within the lore of said same. In fact the earlier statement of a small matter may have served to diminish the position the attack takes in the collective consciousness of the location, it is such that the mere date has become a shorthand for it. The nature of the stand in and the tower within it is what this concerns. The prior landmark was a pair of towers, largely destroyed within the attack. In memory of the attack a further tower was conceived, one dubbed Freedom tower owing to a perennial obsession with the concept of freedom, even if somewhat paradoxically said attack has only served to reduce freedoms. My observance deals with whether the tower in the work is supposed to represent the former or the latter tower. Particularly the number of floors in the tower, that being 130 in the work and 107, or 112 should you count subterranean levels, for the latter tower and some number I was unable, perhaps unwilling, to look up for the former. That number is so very close I was drawn to wonder about the nature of the representation.
One might argue that a city famous for its highly rising towers and limited scope of the work, as well as need for abstraction, might mean it could be any number of things but it is the nature of man to seek patterns where there are none and as such the above is once more posed for your consideration.
