I only just found out about this: Wendell Berry's response to 9-11.

"I first met Garth Marenghi at the 1987 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, after the infamous "DarkFist" poetry reading at which he was beaten to a bloody pulp by Clive Barker after an argument about how many pairs of shoes could be made from the average human skin." --thatwhichfalls on Metafilter thread