Tag Archives: fear
TERROR
After this latest terrorist attack — each, it seems, more horrific than the last — the phrase “the new normal” is now cropping up. What does that mean, I wonder? Does that mean we’ll stop being horrified? That we will
WE ARE NOT AFRAID
Hours after the terrorist attacks in Paris, someone on Facebook posted the photo of a dense crowd in Paris following the massacre at Charlie Hebdo back in January. The rallying cry, and the biggest sign hoisted into the air said
Quarantined in the Time of Fear
In Albert Camus’ novel The Plague, the French town of Oran is quarantined when people start dying from bubonic plague. No one can leave the town; no one from outside can get in. Families are torn apart, lovers are separated.