Weli, no, it's not her job, poor thing - but it's not my job to like the works all the famous authors of English Lit either ... . I was just saying what type of approach might work better with me if the idea was to get me immersed in that period of history.
As a matter of fact, I love the "thought experiment" of trying to explain things in the current era to someone from a given historical era (with, one would hope, more success than Cyril and Anthea had at explaining Victorian London to the Queen of Babylon, or Eliza and Ann had at explaining mid-20th-century America to Elizabeth I ... ).
(Likewise, I'm on the other side of the fence from my usual argument - I'm the one who gets annoyed that people can't realize that the mindset was not the same as it is now during eras past ... my favorite example was the folks on an RPG forum who were insisting that no one can kill lots of people without trauma unless he is a psychopath - even in the context of a war ... .)
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Date: 2007-10-01 02:35 am (UTC)Weli, no, it's not her job, poor thing - but it's not my job to like the works all the famous authors of English Lit either ... . I was just saying what type of approach might work better with me if the idea was to get me immersed in that period of history.
As a matter of fact, I love the "thought experiment" of trying to explain things in the current era to someone from a given historical era (with, one would hope, more success than Cyril and Anthea had at explaining Victorian London to the Queen of Babylon, or Eliza and Ann had at explaining mid-20th-century America to Elizabeth I ... ).
(Likewise, I'm on the other side of the fence from my usual argument - I'm the one who gets annoyed that people can't realize that the mindset was not the same as it is now during eras past ... my favorite example was the folks on an RPG forum who were insisting that no one can kill lots of people without trauma unless he is a psychopath - even in the context of a war ... .)