aggienaut | 30 in 30 III - 15 - Reillusionment (Reply)

   Okay finished my paper today, then slept until about twenty minutes ago, and now Kristy and I are about to scamper off to someone's party. So today for the last time this 30 in 30 I'm going to use the excuse of bein acutely short on time.

   After being steeped in 4th & 5th Century history research for the last few weeks I kinda want to write a historical fiction story wherein I fill in the holes in the historical record and craft the whole thing into a good narrative. I think the narrative structure from the paper I just wrote could be broken down into three or four big chapters that once expanded would be a lot more digestable and interesting.
   Apparently there is a historical fiction novel called The Eagle in Snow by one Wallace Breem thats set in around this period. I tried to get it from the school library today but the UC system only has one copy and its in San Diego. d= But this story as far as I can tell completely makes up a major influential storyline.. I think I could make it all interesting without such liberties.

   When I was a wee lad I was fascinated by knights and King Arthur and such things, as wee lads are want to do. However my perception of these things was that they were inextricably tied to chivalry and knights in plate armour, and I was gradually disillusioned to learn that these things in turn were inexorably tied to stuffy aristocrats and the rennaissance. I certainly never imagined these things would take place previous to the year 1000 or so, and especially not overlap with Rome. Rome was a weird fluke with no knights, and military enterprizes that were so efficient and thought out they were actually boring.
   Its only recently that I've begun to realize that not only does King Arthur take place in the 5th or 6th Century, but so do all the norse sagas, which most of us aren't familiar with but they're the same kind of saucy adventuring and dragon slaying, etc. It involved cavalry rather than chivalrous knights, and Roman forts rather than castles, but its a time when the personalities of military leaders could shape the course of history and saucy adventures were to be had. Only now am I realizing that the legends were true! (or at least, not completely a lie about bougousie stuffy aristocrats)

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**After posting I realized that there's a flaw in this poll in that it makes no differentiation between those who honestly don't even know what 30 in 30 is and those who just don't care. And this is relevant because if some of you are somehow oblivious I definitely want to blogvangalize to you asap. In the mean time, however, Just vote "30 in 30 what?" if you've ignored it all along.

   In Other News: Justice Harney brought my attention to a recent Court ruling that mandated a dispute be resolved by rock paper scissors. Man, I want to be a judge.

   Okay I've really gotta run.