The violent events of November 2015 in Paris are now almost too familiar to be retold. The same applies to the public reaction, a shock and horror, that spread instantaneously across social media. The world, or a remarkable portion of it, urged us to pray for the French capital. In Paris, however, this very global tragedy was also experienced as a delimited, local incident-a most intimate species of war. "The area [where the attack took place] is a real Parisian neighborhood," an architect friend who lives in the immediate vicinity told me recently. 'All the residents are connected somehow. There isn't anyone who doesn't know someone who was killed."
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