It feels self-indulgent to say anything, since I don't have any friends in London---don't even know any Brits except a fellow I met once in Oxford. But no one's said anything at any of the message boards I frequent, and I feel obliged to mark the moment: London, my thoughts and sympathy are with you. I only wish I could be there to help or, at the least, mourn very loudly.

I wonder, decades from now, will we look at this as the end or just the beginning of this sliver of history?

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