Scented candles and incense from the memorials, and traces of bitter smoke from the collapse created a sweet, heady stench that hung over the area.
With repeated urging from Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to continue life and business as usual, lower Manhattan seems to have settled uneasily into a routine of working, and waiting for news.
Though spontaneous debates sporadically erupt between strangers and amateur theologians, who cluster around the subway entrances off 14th Street, New Yorkers in lower Manhattan seem to have devoted more time to mourning and recovering than to contentious political rallies.
A few, however, had begun to react against the proposal of violent and prolonged military retaliation.
Actor and writer Kara Corthron, of the Manhattan-based Artist’s Network, spent Monday afternoon posting fliers that read, “Our grief is not a cry for war!”
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