I think it's not impossible, but like I said, I wouldn't want to do it off the cuff. But I didn't mean to sound like I was lecturing.
Gavin, ask yourself this question. What are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon or me?
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
brenda m - Jan 14, 2006 6:24:57 pm PST #4551 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
§ ita § - Jan 14, 2006 6:31:41 pm PST #4552 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think the contexts are too different. Race relations are not what they used to be, even when they're bad. Emancipation, education, civil rights battles, john crow...I attribute them all a huge impact.
Trudy Booth - Jan 14, 2006 6:43:47 pm PST #4553 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Race relations are not what they used to be, even when they're bad
Of course of course, but I think the general conception of "back then" (not your's, ita) doesn't get that, for example, that anti-micegination laws were passed because people WERE miceginating, they were miceginating up a storm.
Spidra Webster - Jan 14, 2006 6:53:12 pm PST #4554 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
that anti-miscegenation laws were passed because people WERE miscegenating, they were miscegenating up a storm.
That was the most valuable thing I learned from a queer history seminar I took at SFSU. And it applies generally. If governments were passing laws against stuff, it generally means it was going on.
WindSparrow - Jan 14, 2006 6:57:06 pm PST #4555 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
For the record, there were people who contemporaneously protested things like that.
For the record, if I were the teacher who assigned such a project, the letter of protest better sound more like Fox and Penn than King and Kennedy or risk public ridicule.
brenda m - Jan 14, 2006 7:02:06 pm PST #4556 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
if I were the teacher who assigned such a project, the letter of protest better sound more like Fox and Penn than King and Kennedy or risk public ridicule.
No argument there.
Trudy Booth - Jan 14, 2006 7:08:44 pm PST #4557 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
If governments were passing laws against stuff, it generally means it was going on.
The bible too. It was a real 'ah hah' moment when I realized that.
WindSparrow - Jan 14, 2006 7:12:54 pm PST #4558 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Oooooooh, fun thought: House as history prof, assigning projects like these just for the fun of snarking at poorly-thought-out responses.
heh heh heh
brenda m - Jan 14, 2006 7:14:01 pm PST #4559 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'd be watching, for sure.
SuziQ - Jan 14, 2006 7:34:46 pm PST #4560 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
hey, if mayflower women wrote you could write it as a slave...
Interesting idea.
These topics are for discussion credit not graded papers. I have not gotten my grades for the first week yet, so I don't know how he really grades these, but they are supposed to be launching points for discussions. I just hate the whole "suspend what has happened since and write this shite as if I were someone who lived back then and had no clue".
If I wanted to take a creative writing course, I would have. This is supposed to be a history class, you know, learn from the past so we don't repeat it and all that.
I think my overwhelming reality right now is hampering my ability to suspend belief and delve into the past without consideration of what has happened since.