OT: Why I shall be silent for a while

[Richard]

I've just had the wind completely blown out of my sails.

What are the chances? I've just discovered from browsing a couple of news 
sites that I used to know one of the confirmed victims of the London 
bombing. VERY well, over a period of about 10 years. I can't say we were 
friends (at various points, quite the opposite), but Giles Hart was a great 
bloke.

One of the ironies ("tragedies" would be a better word) is that one of the 
contexts in we knew each other was activism against the Soviet occupation 
of Afghanistan...

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1530281,00.html

There's no way on earth I could possibly consider thinking about fictional 
battles between good and evil for the foreseeable future.

'nuff said (I hope).