Monday, January 5, 2015

Which Reminds Me

Yes, here I am again, stuck at Donner Pass. Donner Pass is a scary place thick with snow, fraught with peril. Donner Pass is a place where parents will eat their own children just to keep themselves alive, a place where civilized humans, faced with the prospect of starvation, cut off from all help, may revert to a state of primitive cannibalism. The horrific event of California history happened in 1846. And yet the Donner Pass incident was frequently referenced during college, even by Dauna herself. Maybe Dauna remembers what that meant. I really don't remember now. The details are a bit fuzzy in my mind.