tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post115386400215095536..comments2023-11-29T07:39:34.401+00:00Comments on Carla Nayland Historical Fiction: Deja vu - locations and place namesCarlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-1154103819400682202006-07-28T17:23:00.000+01:002006-07-28T17:23:00.000+01:00I guess a subconscious tribal memory might be anot...I guess a subconscious tribal memory might be another way of describing Elizabeth's concept of a series of 'websites'?Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-1154085420314623272006-07-28T12:17:00.000+01:002006-07-28T12:17:00.000+01:00I tend to assume logic - plus some sort of sub-con...I tend to assume logic - plus some sort of sub-conscious tribal/cultural memory.<BR/>In any event, instances result in what I once saw described as a "cold intellectual ecstasy."Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-1154025427818351722006-07-27T19:37:00.000+01:002006-07-27T19:37:00.000+01:00Bernita - many thaks.Elizabeth - interesting analo...Bernita - many thaks.<BR/><BR/>Elizabeth - interesting analogy. I'd have attributed it to knowing the period well, so that the writer's logical conjectures are indeed logical and therefore are right some of the time. But who's to say? Maybe the 'coincidences' are indeed little glimpses back into the past. Certainly stories sometimes seem to take on a life of their own.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-1154001381648748612006-07-27T12:56:00.000+01:002006-07-27T12:56:00.000+01:00I think that the past is there to be accessed like...I think that the past is there to be accessed like a...well like a website if you have the right software and trigger details - rather like using Google. I also think that sometimes what comes through as 'co-incidence' is the writer somehow tapping into this resource.<BR/>In the long distant past I've had names crop up in my fictional stories and then discovered the people really existed and had the same occupation - although not always in the same timeframe. I had a chap who was a bodyguard in 12thC Jerusalem. I was 15 at the time and my research was pretty duff. I just made up a name I fancied - Paul Jermain. Idly looking stuff up in the library a while later, I come across a guy of this name, doing that job in the Middle East in the 16thC. I think I tapped into something, but it went skewed at the last moment.<BR/>The remote viewing material I've been doing over the last two years has convinced me now, 100% that the past is indeed like a series of archived websites and that some people have the 'software' to unlock them. Everyone else just gets a gleam now and then.Elizabeth Chadwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911841862257909703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-1153957430477511412006-07-27T00:43:00.000+01:002006-07-27T00:43:00.000+01:00Use. As in against another sword.Use. As in against another sword.Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-1153948275712446372006-07-26T22:11:00.000+01:002006-07-26T22:11:00.000+01:00Um, but why is it the point of most stress? Is it...Um, but why is it the point of most stress? Is it something to do with the internal structure of the sword, or its shape, or is it because the way a sword is used concentrates the stress there (leverage?), or what?Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-1153941400153682882006-07-26T20:16:00.000+01:002006-07-26T20:16:00.000+01:00I believe he said it's the point of most stress.I ...I believe he said it's the point of most stress.<BR/><BR/>I love to read of these moments. Thank you both.Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-1153934071552506992006-07-26T18:14:00.000+01:002006-07-26T18:14:00.000+01:00Gabriele - that's one classy example! Almost enou...Gabriele - that's one classy example! Almost enough to make one believe in time travel and past lives :-) Logic and geography don't change.<BR/><BR/>Bernita - indeed it does, and that's another good example. Did your weapons-master son-in-law say why swords commonly break there?Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-1153917623410625442006-07-26T13:40:00.000+01:002006-07-26T13:40:00.000+01:00Gives one that shivery feeling up the spine, does ...Gives one that shivery feeling up the spine, does it not?<BR/>Yes, though I can't recall a topographical instance right off, I know there have been a couple.<BR/>Wanted to have a broken sword that still could function as a weapon. Arbitrarily broke it 2/3rds down the blade. Later my weapon's master son-in-law told me that the the usual point for breakage.Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-1153874147346713562006-07-26T01:35:00.000+01:002006-07-26T01:35:00.000+01:00I have visited almost all locations in Kings and R...I have visited almost all locations in <I>Kings and Rebels</I> but it's more difficult with the Roman books - I have never been to southern France (though I'd like to) or Italy/Rome (where I don't feel like going).<BR/><BR/>I had some fun when I invented a place where in southern Britannia a circus could have been. In the end, I settled for Camulodunum because of the surrounding villas where you could breed horses, and the city and garrison that would provide the spectators. (Bath was another candidate but I sorta liked Camulodunom better.) Only to find out a few weeks thereafter that they're busy digging out a circus exactly where I put it. :)Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.com