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Thinking "Oh, no, not again!"

posted by [personal profile] revdorothyl at 09:15am on 07/07/2005
I was reading in bed this morning, when the phone rang, telling me that the bulletin info I'd e-mailed to a church hadn't arrived, so I fired up the computer and was merrily sending e-mails and responding to LJ comments before I thought to turn on the news. Now I'm just wondering how I could have been happily chattering on about Georgette Heyer novels when so much destruction and suffering was going on.

So glad that many LJ people in the London area have reported in safe, but can't help grieving for all the people we don't know who've been hurt or killed, and for the reminder, once again, that no place in this world is safe from human evil and the will to bring terror and pain.

I know London will survive, and many Londoners will behave admirably and generously in response to the needs and grief around them, but I'm wondering how humanity as a whole can ever grow beyond the hatred and violence that make such terrible acts even thinkable.
Mood:: 'sad' sad
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posted by [identity profile] missmurchison.livejournal.com at 02:58pm on 07/07/2005
It's so typical of such a tragedy that the people truly responsible are proud of themselves, peripherally responsible people like Bush take no responsibility for creating a world atmosphere that breeds terrorism as well as greenhouse gases, and someone like you feels guilty for no reason at all.

Also, remember Heyer wrote some of those novels in what must have been a spirit of defiance during the blitz, and that some of the characters in her mystery novels bore the scars of WWII, one being an amputee.
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Heyer's defiance

posted by (anonymous) at 11:52pm on 07/07/2005
I actually had that in the back of my mind, but was afraid to sound too blithe.

I remembered reading in a biography of Heyer about how one woman who'd recently read Friday's Child before being interned by an enemy power (I'm thinking it was the Japanese, but can't be sure) lifted the other women prisoners' spirits by telling them the story from first to last. The other women interned with her would ask every night for her to tell them "What Kitten did next".

As for the responsibility -- I agree that Bush seems to have a problem accepting any at all, which only adds to my fears for what might come next. I'd so much rather be re-reading A Civil Campaign.
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Heyer's Defiance

posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 01:44am on 08/07/2005
That was me -- I just forgot to log in, so it came up "anonymous" accidentally.
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Re: Heyer's Defiance

posted by [identity profile] missmurchison.livejournal.com at 06:35pm on 08/07/2005
I knew it was you! And it may not have been your fault. LJ has been posting some comments as anonymous even when the user is logged in.

I loved the story about the women in internment.
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