i was in japan when it happened, woke up and it was all over the TV. the girl i was staying with said look look they've done 9/11. at first i was horrified and thought, i've got to get a plane back to the UK in a few days. first thought for myself as usual, as though it might happen again, to me. then i made this hello kitty toy plane fly into a chair leg to make her laugh, which worked. since then i was bewildered by the way people's minds locked onto the conspiratorial side of it - but that was mostly a certain kind of mind. my main thought these days is of the thick, dense smoke rising from the collapsing buildings, straight from hell, and the people falling out