Quite taken by your article about the growing fashion for saying sorry about so many misdeeds of the past, like mistreatment of women or slavery (“Who’s Sorry Now,” October 4, 2008), I feel compelled to offer an apology all my own. And I do not have in mind anything along the lines of “a rebuke to the past for not being more like the present,” as Jonathan Sumption, a London lawyer and historian, calls the most fashionable apologies of the day. In fact, mine will be a rebuke to the future, too. I apologize to all and sundry for being human. Alas, this was hardly a choice of my own, but I still feel contrite about it beyond words. And no kidding. Moreover, I apologize for not being able to offer any compensation to anyone who has suffered, or will ever suffer, on account of this fault of mine. So sorry, indeed.