Who will plow my high field?
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handworn. I've added stuff to the interest list since I compiled this, but it's an accurate picture from a day or so ago.
Look at your LJ "interests" list. If you have less than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.
AMELIA PEABODY. - Well, these are fun comedic-historical-romance-mysteries set in the 19th and early 20th century, involving a nutty family of Egyptologists and the inevitable murders that happen on all their digs. Written by Elizabeth Peters and lots of fun--but sometimes quite serious, too, especially as World War I closes in on their world. Great entertainment.
ARTHURIANA. - I've been reading and researching the Arthur stuff for eons. It has a dark and lovely attraction for me. It's also come in handy in my current WIP.
BURNING TIMES. - Always interested in how a dominant religion can persecute those who deviate from dogma, or even just appear to deviate, or who get ratted out as deviant by neighbors who want to settle a score, et al.
CELTS. - Again, with the dark and lovely attraction. It's the strain of sadness and adventure combined that really gets my wheels a spinning.
DANIEL DEFOE (sometimes spelled DAFOE and I think he spelled it both ways himself). - Not only a classic writer, but one hell of an interesting human being. His life was as stranger or stranger than any fiction he ever writ.
ELEUSIS. - Mysteries. Dig 'em. Especially ones no one has any hard proof regarding the contents thereof. The Sacred Feminine? The Concept of Rebirth? An afterlife in which all are equal? Who knows? But the speculating keeps on.
FORTEANA. - I like reading about weird stuff. I stay on the fence, for the most part, about the causes behind the weird stuff--neither a total skeptic nor a total believer--but I like anything that makes the world seem less ordered than most people want to believe it is. I like things that shake up dogma of any sort.
HIPPIES. - Hey, man, like I've been spending a lot of time in '68 for the last year what with the novel and all and it was a really groovy time.
MEXICAN CALIFORNIA. - For one brief period of time in the early 19th century, California belonged to neither Spain nor the United States but was a part of Mexico. That whole era was quite dynamic and interesting.
PAINTING. - Looking at it more than doing it. I'm a three-dimensional kind of gal when it comes to doing it. But I really love looking at it.
PREHISTORY. - Mysteries. Dig 'em. Anything older than paper is fascinating to me (well, and the early civilizations, too). It's always been that way, since I was a wee little bairn. I will watch any show, read any book on the ancient stuff, prehistorical anthropology, etc., etc.
RURAL POLICE. - I had a character in a series of stories I wrote who was the sheriff of a small, rural Southern California county. Rural policing has its own interesting set of problems that urban settings don't have to deal with as much.
SUMERIA. - Really, all of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations. Again, I've been fascinated since I was very young and can't say exactly why. I'm particularly fascinated now by Inanna and sacred prostitutes and the earliest incarnations of such stories as Noah's Flood. I love Gilgamesh and the simple power of that story, of human beings trying to come to grips with the concept of dying. I've read several versions, but I've got to say my favorite is Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason. Such a gorgeous interpretation. Parts of it never fail to make me boo-hoo. I'm also fascinated by Enheduanna--the first writer in history identified by name, and a priestess. Who will plow my high field?
VAMPIRES. - Do you have to ask?
handworn. I've added stuff to the interest list since I compiled this, but it's an accurate picture from a day or so ago.Look at your LJ "interests" list. If you have less than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.
AMELIA PEABODY. - Well, these are fun comedic-historical-romance-mysteries set in the 19th and early 20th century, involving a nutty family of Egyptologists and the inevitable murders that happen on all their digs. Written by Elizabeth Peters and lots of fun--but sometimes quite serious, too, especially as World War I closes in on their world. Great entertainment.
ARTHURIANA. - I've been reading and researching the Arthur stuff for eons. It has a dark and lovely attraction for me. It's also come in handy in my current WIP.
BURNING TIMES. - Always interested in how a dominant religion can persecute those who deviate from dogma, or even just appear to deviate, or who get ratted out as deviant by neighbors who want to settle a score, et al.
CELTS. - Again, with the dark and lovely attraction. It's the strain of sadness and adventure combined that really gets my wheels a spinning.
DANIEL DEFOE (sometimes spelled DAFOE and I think he spelled it both ways himself). - Not only a classic writer, but one hell of an interesting human being. His life was as stranger or stranger than any fiction he ever writ.
ELEUSIS. - Mysteries. Dig 'em. Especially ones no one has any hard proof regarding the contents thereof. The Sacred Feminine? The Concept of Rebirth? An afterlife in which all are equal? Who knows? But the speculating keeps on.
FORTEANA. - I like reading about weird stuff. I stay on the fence, for the most part, about the causes behind the weird stuff--neither a total skeptic nor a total believer--but I like anything that makes the world seem less ordered than most people want to believe it is. I like things that shake up dogma of any sort.
HIPPIES. - Hey, man, like I've been spending a lot of time in '68 for the last year what with the novel and all and it was a really groovy time.
MEXICAN CALIFORNIA. - For one brief period of time in the early 19th century, California belonged to neither Spain nor the United States but was a part of Mexico. That whole era was quite dynamic and interesting.
PAINTING. - Looking at it more than doing it. I'm a three-dimensional kind of gal when it comes to doing it. But I really love looking at it.
PREHISTORY. - Mysteries. Dig 'em. Anything older than paper is fascinating to me (well, and the early civilizations, too). It's always been that way, since I was a wee little bairn. I will watch any show, read any book on the ancient stuff, prehistorical anthropology, etc., etc.
RURAL POLICE. - I had a character in a series of stories I wrote who was the sheriff of a small, rural Southern California county. Rural policing has its own interesting set of problems that urban settings don't have to deal with as much.
SUMERIA. - Really, all of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations. Again, I've been fascinated since I was very young and can't say exactly why. I'm particularly fascinated now by Inanna and sacred prostitutes and the earliest incarnations of such stories as Noah's Flood. I love Gilgamesh and the simple power of that story, of human beings trying to come to grips with the concept of dying. I've read several versions, but I've got to say my favorite is Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason. Such a gorgeous interpretation. Parts of it never fail to make me boo-hoo. I'm also fascinated by Enheduanna--the first writer in history identified by name, and a priestess. Who will plow my high field?
VAMPIRES. - Do you have to ask?
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Date: 2005-09-09 11:27 pm (UTC)Oh, and nobody was ever burned for witchcraft in England. Heresy, yes; witchcraft, never (mention this one to
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Date: 2005-09-10 11:35 am (UTC)Thank you for your input.
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Date: 2005-09-12 10:46 pm (UTC)