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YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question and answer it on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.
This Week's Topic:
If you could travel back to any historical era for research purposes, which would you choose?
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| I am not in this picture. But I could have been. |
I suppose that phrase "for research purposes" is the thing that's going to keep my answer in line this week. There are a few times I wouldn't mind going back to in order to just check things out or have some fun. In my teens, I was a pretty rockin' hippie with my long plaid skirts and vintage Chevy Nova. I've got pictures. Alas, I don't have a scanner. I'd be all over San Francisco in the 60's, strumming my guitar and spouting off about love and the war. Summer of Love? I'd time machine hitchhike to Haight-Ashbury for that in a heartbeat. But I have no interest in writing a book set in that time period, so I guess my very pedantic time machine will give me the uplifted eyebrow when I try to set those time coordinates.
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| Why yes, this does resemble my day-to-day life. |
However, there are other time periods that would work. My gothtopian takes some of its cues from the lush decadence of
settecento Venice and pre-guillotine Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The dress, the mannerisms, the disgusting hoarding of wealth are all signatures of the story that would benefit from time travel. And while I've always had issues with the idea of traveling to any pre-indoor-plumbing time period, I might make an exception for those. Corsets and 50 pound dresses and ridiculous hair and little hand-painted shoes and courtiers in the gardens and sitting for portraits and stolen kisses in empty castle hallways . . . Sign me up!
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14 comments:
Oh my God just look at that PICTURE! Cakes and a pedicure? I think so. Also, when can I read your book and get lost in a world with stolen kisses in empty castle hallways? WANT.
Well that picture makes me want to go there right along with you!
With Kaitlin and Sarah... I'm all about the Marie Antoinette era, pre-guillotine!
My husband and I were just talking last night about how cool it would have been to be in San Francisco in the 60s. So I'll be right there with you!
Let you eat cake! That picture sold me on Marie Antoinette's era.
Marie Antionette's era would be cool, to visit for like a week, but it's not a long term vacation spot... history spoiler alert, it doesn't end well for her. :-)
Only you would have a very pedantic time machine. (which is why I <3 you.)
Yeah, I wouldn't want to spend too much time in Marie Antoinette's era and I'd definitely have to be hob-knobbing with the wealthy. Although hanging with the revolutionaries could be pretty awesome, too. It's in progress, Sarah! Gotta light a fire under my rear on it. :/
Que coincidençia! Just this morning I lounged in a frilly white dress surrounded by cakes while my maid filed my unruly toenails.
srzly.
Ah, how very different -- mud-dancing hippie-dom versus decadence and decapitation.
Both eras sound awesome, though I think I'll have to forgo the 50 pound dress. I can't even imagine that...
Even though I have a morbid obsession with revolutionary France, I'd still like to hop over pre-revolution just to see the excess of it.
I'm hitchhiking a ride with you. Binding corsets be damned!
I'd like a trip to the 1950's-70's. I'm fascinated by beatnik and hippie culture.
I'd love to go back to the time of petticoats and chamberpots, but then again I don't think I'd survive without certain paper products for that time of the month. Hopefully they would still have Long Island plumbers of some sort.
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