In the long run of history, Camus has been proven right regarding the mounting and unresolved agonies that would result from campaigns of terror even ones undertaken in a legitimate cause (Barbet Schroeder's remarkable documentary "Terror's Advocate," about the lawyer Jacques Vergès, addresses the issue movingly).
But a remarkable thing happened – all my terror disappeared, and the joy of performance came back to me.
As it most often does in response to this type of tragic event, the technologically-interconnected world has united to collectively mourn and showcase a robust stand against terror and a remarkable defense of free speech.
Today's Wikipedia defines "awesome" as "1) causing awe or terror; 2) excellent, exciting, remarkable".
The loop manages to exist in that remarkable space somewhere between object beauty and complete terror, the wonder and the wild.
It's a remarkable piece of music theatre that arouses pity and terror – as classical tragedy always should.
These narratives and others perform, in Mr. Suskind's hands, an intricate arabesque and manage, to a rather remarkable degree, to show us, in this age of terror, "the true way of the world".
Looking back, it's remarkable to realize that, in response to a single day of terror, Washington set the Middle East ablaze, turned air travel into a form of bondage play, and did away with the best of our democracy.
The bass-baritone Johan Reuter, on stage almost throughout, brought terror and anguish to the taxing title role in a remarkable, heartfelt performance.
And the second remarkable thing is the unity at the United Nations, rallying an international coalition against terror.
"I'm not a big fan of the war on terror and everything it justified, but I do think it's remarkable that events like the Boston bombings haven't occurred more often," Silver says.
