[percy-l] hurricane in Lancelot
Teresa
ttbrader at mindspring.com
Wed Sep 28 00:54:04 EDT 2005
I don't know how many hurricane scares your new student has been through
in her lifetime, and I can only speak to this question from a personal
viewpoint.
That quote from /Lancelot /about enjoying hurricanes ... I understand it
because of past experiences -- from when I was a child up until the one
before Katrina, I guess. (I am 43 years old.) If your student has
experienced past hurricane threats (before Katrina), she may understand
the feeling Percy talks of. Katrina was different, though, and that may
be all she can think of right now.
When we first heard that Friday night/Saturday morning that a hurricane
was headed our way, I admit that I felt a pleasurable anticipation of
being snug inside with my husband while the bad weather rattled around
outside. But as the news changed and New Orleans was put under
mandatory evacuation (first time ever) that Sunday morning, the
anticipation was pleasurable no longer. I felt dread. The dread
deepened as the night lengthened. I have never felt that way with any
other hurricane.
I'd imagine that for your student, as with most everyone else around
here -- whether they have not been back home or whether they have been
able to come back, as I have -- her emotions are raw and right there,
ready to spill out. I have not had one 'good' cry, but then my eyes
well up instantly and I hurt at just about everything I see and hear
nowadays. It may be the same for her.
Not really a suggestion, I know ...
Teresa
dabeck at iupui.edu wrote:
>Still, I wonder how she will see the whole hurricane effect and the hurricane in
>Lancelot.
> Any suggestions?
>
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