At 11:03 AM 10/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>He recanted a little, though, in the following LRB
><http://www.lrb.co.uk/newletts.htm>:
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>I would like to apologise for the e-mail I sent not long after New
>York and Washington DC were attacked (Letters, 18 October). You are
>in no danger of me visiting your office and doing anything remotely
>violent with dog-doo. My e-mail was sent in a fit of passion. People
>I know in New York were affected by the attack, but luckily not
>killed or injured. Imagine how you might feel if thousands of
>Londoners were blown to bits, and then intellectuals in America or
>France immediately wrote about how England should have seen it
>coming, because of its past history of colonialism, repression etc,
>etc. This doesn't excuse my comment, just helps explain it. You
>published it partly ironically, I'm sure, and partly to reconfirm
>your readers' views of Americans as idiots. Well, I was idiotic with
>sadness and anger. Even though I don't usually agree with
>publications like the London Review of Books or the Nation, I am glad
>they are around.
>
>Todd Ojala
>Minneapolis
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>Chris