RE: BST: If you could go back in time
Mangurten, Kenneth (MangurtenKA@MSX.UPMC.EDU)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:40:13 -0500
just a point to note ..Beruit 184 is Not that historical...I know IWAS
THERE IN THEN.any body who would actually want to go back to that time
is nuttier than i am for wanting to be there when it was occuring in its
normal time line
Ken Mangurten LSW
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> From: Willow[SMTP:c718984@showme.missouri.edu]
> Reply To: chaingang@samurai.com
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 1997 1:00 PM
> To: Lisa M. Rabey
> Cc: Ralph W. Middaugh, Jr.; fte@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au;
> chaingang@samurai.com; bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Re: BST: If you could go back in time
>
> > >if you could go ANYWHERE in past history, where would you go and
> why?
> >
>
> a L O N G time ago, just after the Celts (if you pronounce it "selts",
> I'll hunt
> you down and kill you. It's pronounced "Kelts") actually left
> Northern Europe
> (trying to get away from the Saxons, I believe), and sailed to Erin
> (now known as
> Ireland). Once they got there, they apparently ran into the Tuatha De
> Dannan
> (say: "Too-wath-a Day Dan-ann"), a mythical fairy peoples, whom they
> proceeded
> to slaughter in the good warlike Celtic tradition. (The Tuaths
> supposedly
> weren't all that frendly, either.) I want to go back and be a young
> Celtic
> redhead, about a year after the Celts claimed Erin for their own. I
> want to go
> back and expore Ireland, to go places that no human being ever has. To
> be the
> first to run barefoot through a field of heather, or taste the clear,
> unpoluted
> crystal streams.
> Oh, did I mention that for the most part, the Celts, when
> peaceful, were a
> Matriarchly based society? Women had just as much freedom as men, and
> sometimes
> more, because it was thier bodies that gave birth. This was
> respected, not
> considered a "weakness". When allowed to be peaceful, the Celts knew
> how to
> have fun.. As a young woman, I would play around with the pretty
> Celtic men (and
> women, too!), but I would expand my knowledge of herblore, eventually
> becomming
> either a village wise-woman, or mabe a Druid Priestess.
>
> lots of fun.. if you want to learn more about this sort of stuff, read
> anything
> by Morgan Llewelan, she writes Celtic historical fiction, and is an
> excellent
> writer.
>
> ---becky
>
> > >notes: this is in the past, not future. i'm looking for historical
> > >settings like ancient greece, 1917 Moscow, Beruit 1984. i'm not
> after
> > >"last week, just before the calc test."
> > >
> > >i am not asking you to be a historical figure. this is just you,
> as you
> > >are (with clothing and style modifications), inserted in the past.
> > >
> > >if the why is to change something, be as detailed as you can. if
> it's to
> > >observe, what do you want to observe.
> > >
> > >the end results, should there be any, will be posted on a special
> segment
> > >of my webpage. if you would not like this done tell me and i
> shall
> > >repsect that wish.
>
> i dont really see why, but you can if you want
>
> >
>
> > >thank you in advance for your replies. i hope we can al have fun
> with
> > >this, if not learn something ofourselves and each other.
> > >
>