Challenge 1160

Look Who’s Watching

In George Aitch’s, Southern Hospitality:
1. Why would young Cajun (Acadian) men flee the neighborhood when Kitty Fairley’s baby is reported to be speaking perfect French, the Acadians’ native language?
2. What is the difference between Dr. Jupitus’ visit to Celine and Johnboy and the visit of Jupiter and Mercury to the peasant home of Baucis and Philemon in Ovid’s Metamorphoses? Might it be due to an implied contrast of deities?
In Huina Zheng’s Why Cry in First Class?: How does the presence of other passengers’ social media affect the outcome of two passengers’ verbal conflict? What might have happened in an age before cellphones and their video capacity?
In Landon L. Gow’s Protocol for the Unseen:
1. Who or what might create the “delusion” in which Abilene, among others, is “caged” and for what purpose?
2. Are all ciizens under control or only Abilene and others of her social class? If the police aren’t controlled, who else might not be?
3. The contact lenses and earphones superimpose false images and sounds. What might be done to control the senses of taste, touch and smell?
4. Does Abilene end her story by accident or suicide? Why can’t she just go alog with the delusion? What else might she do?