Via Anke Gröner, thx:

• Forbidden thoughts about 9/11 From gloating about getting off work to enjoying the "country road" ambience of lower Manhattan to hating on-the-make firemen: A spectrum of improper responses to the terror attacks.

• Forbidden thoughts about 9/11: The readers respond From "It was only white people" to hoping to get a 212 cell phone number to "I hope my father died," readers share their secret reactions to Sept. 11.