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been there, done that, have a selection of tee-shirts.
I lived in London during the IRA bombing campaigns, and you are NEVER ready, ad yet you always ignore it and keep going.
Terrorism is always shocking - that's the whole point of it. But the human mind has an astonishing facility for overlooking the spectacular i favour of the mundane.
Look at all the times you see people reopening shops with blown out windows.
I bet that within 24 hours of McVei's bomb in Oklahoma the people that worked in the government building were perfectly OK about the fact that they early died, but totally pissed off about the fact that they left a half can of Coke on their desk.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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