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A reader responds to my recent post on the viability of saving New Orleans:
From: Gary Dannenbaum
Subject: Can New Orleans be Saved?
Date: 31 August 2005 10:27:21 PM EDT
To: Evan Coyne MaloneyEvan,
As usual I appreciate your insight to issues large and small that you cover on [Brain Terminal], however I must take exception to your recent posting regarding the Crescent City.
You are a smart man, Evan. You think rationally and in a logical manner. You obviously are not from the South. This disaster known as Hurricane Katrina is not the first storm that has virtually wiped out New Orleans. Why do you think the cemeteries are built above ground? Sewage and foul matter have run in the streets many, many times since the inception of what is affectionately known as “The Big Easy.”
New Orleans will come back. They can’t sanitize it. The best way to describe why New Orleans will never go away is this. Please pardon the French. Laissez faire bon temp roulez!
Kindest regards,
Gary Dannenbaum
There’s a little Bourbon Street in all of us. I only regret I never visited while I had the chance. May the spirit of New Orleans live on, in whatever form the city takes next.
