There is a duty to speak precisely about such events, perhaps a need greater than ever before. After the initial curses (or are they oaths?) have passed between lips, barely audible perhaps, whispered as they say beneath one's breath, uttered or sighed without illusion of speaking or performing homage with any adequacy or faux promises of finality (that can be known) to the loss that now marks what will remain. There is a duty to speak, after this breath maybe, but also before too much time has passed. This changes nothing? On the contrary, I beg your pardon, but I think something has to change.
July 07, 2005
London Under Attack
You'll all have heard by now.
Not on the immediate 'shock' scale of the Spanish attack, nevertheless, as I write, the whole of London has effectively been shut down, all transport suspended, emergency services on high alert, Blair on his way down from the G8 summit. Casualties and fatalities unclear, though there have certainly been many of the former and some of the latter.
Hard not to slide into fatalism - 'it was only a matter of time', 'I knew something like this would happen'. How easy it is to shut down an entire city.
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