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*triumps in they entrails*
Dec. 6th, 2007 03:26 amI HAVE SENT THE DRAFT OF THE BUJOLD ARTICLE OFF.
And I am going to bed.
And I am going to bed.
Dec. 6th, 2007
For sorrow and for shame...
Dec. 6th, 2007 08:54 pmMy feet are cold and there's candle wax on my coat and a smell of sweetgrass in my nostrils.
I was going to write a post about the Montreal Massacre[1], instead of just listing names. Now I come to do it, I can't. They were women my age. Women I would have liked very much to get to know. Women who could have given so much to their professions. To Canada. To the world.
They've been gone now for nearly as long as most of them lived, and still I cannot tell you what I feel when I remember how they died. What I feel when I see two young women, police officers assigned to the vigil, standing silent in the crowd with the rest of us, just for a moment. How an older man stopped as he passed the park, crossed himself, and went on his way. How I feel when I see the memorial at Carleton, in the Engineering building, paid for by the mostly male students of that year, that begins with the words "to our fallen comrades."
If I could tell you, it might sound like this:
Gone Woman Blues, Rory Block.
December 6th, 1989
Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
ETA: If you were linked here, and were wondering what this is about, this is quite a good place to start, after which the CBC archives, linked in the entry, are useful reading.
[1] For quite good reasons, with which I largely agree, people mostly now use the phrase "École Polytechnique Murders." But it's forever, in my head, the Montreal Massacre.
I was going to write a post about the Montreal Massacre[1], instead of just listing names. Now I come to do it, I can't. They were women my age. Women I would have liked very much to get to know. Women who could have given so much to their professions. To Canada. To the world.
They've been gone now for nearly as long as most of them lived, and still I cannot tell you what I feel when I remember how they died. What I feel when I see two young women, police officers assigned to the vigil, standing silent in the crowd with the rest of us, just for a moment. How an older man stopped as he passed the park, crossed himself, and went on his way. How I feel when I see the memorial at Carleton, in the Engineering building, paid for by the mostly male students of that year, that begins with the words "to our fallen comrades."
If I could tell you, it might sound like this:
Gone Woman Blues, Rory Block.
December 6th, 1989
Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
ETA: If you were linked here, and were wondering what this is about, this is quite a good place to start, after which the CBC archives, linked in the entry, are useful reading.
[1] For quite good reasons, with which I largely agree, people mostly now use the phrase "École Polytechnique Murders." But it's forever, in my head, the Montreal Massacre.