But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
From Jon Ronson
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.
I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.
I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.
Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.
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