In Algiers, c'est la terreur…. One can no longer distinguish the brave from the cowards. Unless, as a result of living in fear, we have all become insensitive and unaware. Certainly, I don't want to die and I absolutely do not want my children to die, but I am taking no particular precaution beyond those which have become habit over the past fortnight; limitation of going outside, expeditions to buy "in bulk", an end to the visits of friends. But each time one of us goes out, on his return he describes an incident or reports a victim.

XREF: Connects to discussions of how sustained threat normalizes fear responses and blunts moral categories — relevant to contemporary accounts of living under chronic violence.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1583