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[radiantfracture]

Uncle and aunt and poet friend and his partner in Ottawa all safe from the TORNADO.

For some reason a tornado in Ottawa makes me think of Two Solitudes. Oh, that stupid tower the architect wanted to build in the middle of the prairies because clearly MacLennan read The Fountainhead halfway through his first draft and was like "towers are powers". (And you never quite got to that full second draft, did you, Hugh?)

(Googles to make sure this sequence of events is actually possible. Two Solitudes published 1945; The Fountainhead 1943. Good enough.)

I wrote an essay in third year (in one of my third years) about Two Solitudes in which I suggested that MacLennan might want to think about tornadoes. This was not super well-received by the Canadian Lit prof.

Now I am thinking with teeth-gritting frustration about Atwood's "Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer", so that's a morning.

There's something so good about posting in this journal and having a bit of a chat with you all, even when I'm talking nonsense. I forget this when I'm overwhelmed and feel as though I don't have the brain power to formulate anything worthwhile. It's just exactly the right thing. Thank you.

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Comments

[sovay]

Uncle and aunt and poet friend and his partner in Ottawa all safe from the TORNADO.

I am glad all your people are all right and that's ridiculous.

It's just exactly the right thing. Thank you.

It's good to hear from you, so I'm especially glad it works on your side, too.

[cmcmck]

Well we did once have a hurricane in the UK- 15th/16th October 1987. It was....um....interesting! :o/

Glad your people are okay!

Nonsense?

No!

[bibliofile]

Egads, tornado! Yeah, glad they're all okay.

A Wisconsin friend who moved to the Carolinas found out that tornadoes occur around hurricanes, too. Apparently my friend got to explain the tornado watch/warning system to her local friends. (All made it through all the weather, fortunately.)

Ain't DW great?

[moon_custafer]

I suggested that MacLennan might want to think about tornadoes. This was not super well-received by the Canadian Lit prof.

See also “why there was never a cross-continental airship route in North America.”

[kenjari]

I'm glad your relatives and friends are okay. I lived in Indiana for two and a half years and never got used to the whole tornado thing. We never had one touch down during that time, but got plenty of warnings and watches. The sirens are terrifying.