[lit-ideas] Re: True Desperation
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:50:45 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Stan Spiegel <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/6/2005 8:13:04 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: True Desperation
>
>
> SS: Over the weekend I heard myself voicing anger at the victims --
> able-bodied and able to take their families out of there, if only by
leading
> them out by the hand and walking until safe, though tired. How could they
> just wait around for help? How passive and inert can you get? I saw many
> people -- tall and broad-shouldered -- yelling at reporters about where
was
> the government, where was the help that was promised?
>
A lot of people said the same thing. Stan, assuming they did decide to
walk, where do you propose they should have walked to? The area was
destroyed for 70 to 80 miles around. If you were leading them, where would
you take them?
Andy Amago
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carol Kirschenbaum" <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 3:32 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] True Desperation
>
>
> > Four hundred N.O. evacuees are scheduled to arrive in Fresno, CA, today.
> We
> > must be underestimating the degree of these folks' desperation.
> >
> > On quite another note, I've been tearful and raging this weekend. True,
> > Saturday was my birthday, but this is more about N.O. and the Bush.
> > Desperation without a net. Has anyone else here been taking all this
> Katrina
> > aftermath viscerally and personally?
> >
> > later,
> > Carol,
> > already evacuated to Fresno
> >
> >
> >
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