09-26-2010, 05:57 PM
(09-26-2010, 05:45 PM)AliceChell Wrote: Just a footnote. The above post was meant for Gothic Tiger, not you, Penfeather! But while I have you on the line, Gothic Tiger has hit on a truth, at least about me.
I can romanticize about what was really in many ways a horrific experience. I just distance myself from what were the harsher realities of Katrina and imagine it all happening suspensefully in a more interesting and distant time to others. I obviously did not enjoy Katrina, but I could enjoy a good gothic story involving a hurricane.
I know it was meant for Tiger. But in case you haven't noticed, I have something to say about everything!
It's a vice borne of enthusiasm, but I am slowly learning the wisdom of counseling oneself to occasional silence . . .But first . . . I think we're saying the same thing. Horrific events in a fictitious story -- even murder -- exist for me in another mental compartment, and don't really correspond to their counterparts in reality.
