over and over again—trying the
phrase on, like a new dress, to see
how it fitted. “I’ve been bombed!...
I’ve been bombed—me!”
It seems a terrible thing to say,
when many people were killed and
injured last night; but never in my
whole life have I ever experienced
such pure and flawless happiness.So why were Londoners so unfazed by
the Blitz? Because forty thousand deaths
and forty-six thousand injuries—spread
across a metropolitan area of more than
eight million people—means that there
were many more remote misses who
were emboldened by the experience of