Comments | narratrice: And one last feeling...

narratrice

And one last feeling...

Sep 13, 2006 19:44

Today was uncannily reminiscent of September 11th. A little trickle of news ballooned into this confusion of people scrambling to get the story straight. The three hours between hearing of the shooting and finally hearing my mother's voice, were eerily similar to the twelve hours between hearing of the Twin Towers falling and hearing that my ( Read more... )

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finneco September 14 2006, 00:57:50 UTC

As soon as I heard, it took me back to those feelings of crisis and futility of five years ago. I remembered shock, not being able to watch the footage in Oliver's, the glazed look on students and staff alike. It was the same thing in Gert's today.

Finn

narratrice September 14 2006, 01:45:01 UTC

Hmmm... that day in Dawson was surreal, five years ago. All these people I'd grown up with - Willingdon and RWA alumni - all seemed to surface in Oliver's and Conrod's. There were so many people I hugged for the first time that day, who I'd known forever but never spoken a word to. Yeah.

I envy you that you have a Gert's. I'm still wandering like an aimless tourist in this city, and I don't have a "place" yet. I only have ex-places. Weird feeling.

xox

freekofnature September 14 2006, 12:32:22 UTC

OK, I am far away and kinda disconnected from things but:
WTF IS GOING ON BACK THERE!?!?

I mean, any idea WHY all this is going on, now?

This is the third shooting at a college in Montréal in memory! Each time some guy with a rifle opens up on students!!! What the H*ll is going on! What causes these guys to snap like this? Is there something in the water??

And now the second firebombing of a Jewish school there?

I've always understood the schitzo-ness, just below the surface, of life in the urban centers Québec, but this is a little too much...

narratrice September 17 2006, 01:45:00 UTC

you know what? Being in AngloLand for four years has sensitized me to this underlying schitzoness you speak of. This is a strange place. Quebec is weird, and very volatile. And by noting this, I don't really want to be here right now, at least not long-term. It's just a little too marginal. Weird to say it, weird to feel it. But here it is.

freekofnature September 17 2006, 13:02:10 UTC

OK,
Check out my very latest post, an article I ganked from one of the more prescient columnists at the the Globe and Mail:
http://freekofnature.livejournal.com/101625.html#cutid1

I am really interested in what you think of this. Is she on the right track? or totally off?
It's really been about 6-7 years I've been removed from la belle provence (Ontario and in the states) but some of what she says rings true...