Dear, oh, dear... well, when I go back and visit you all who want to live in times long passed, no hugs and kisses will be necessary.
Dude, just hold your breath! _________________ "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." ---- Groucho Marx
Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:51 am Post subject:
Alba wrote:
During the Englightment period in France or the Renaissance in Italy.
I guess if you were a) male, b) a member of the aristocracy or educated class, and/or c) a talented artist lucky enough to land a rich patron, then yeah, I guess those periods would be alright. But as a lowly female among the unwashed masses...
I think I would've loved to have been a writer/creative force living in Montparnasse during the Années Folles, and serving as muse to Picasso, Dalí, Duchamp, Fargue, Prévert, Miller, Brassaï, Man Ray, etc. And in return for my magnanimity they'd immortalize me on canvas, photo, film, and the written page.
Either that or exchanging bon mots and withering ripostes with Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin.
I'd like to live in Warsaw or Cracow between 1870-1939.
It would be nice to die on 31 of August 1939.
while defending Warsaw?
I like Middle Ages a lot, with knights, swords, and all that stuff, yeah, and my lover should have been a prince on a white horse hehe _________________
[quote="Elaine"][quote="Alba"]During the Englightment period in France or the Renaissance in Italy.[/quote]
I guess if you were a) male, b) a member of the aristocracy or educated class, and/or c) a talented artist lucky enough to land a rich patron, then yeah, I guess those periods would be alright. But as a lowly female among the unwashed masses...
I think I would've loved to have been a writer/creative force living in Montparnasse during the [i]Années Folles[/i], and serving as muse to Picasso, Dalí, Duchamp, Fargue, Prévert, Miller, Brassaï, Man Ray, etc. And in return for my magnanimity they'd immortalize me on canvas, photo, film, and the written page.
Either that or exchanging bon mots and withering ripostes with Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin. [/quote]
Well of course I'd be a member of aristocracy...otherwise no! lol perhaps be Da Vinci's inspiration ahahah j/k....also it would be cool to live in 19th century England...smth along the lines of a Jane Austen novel, lol. _________________ What goes around comes around goes all the way back around.
You know, even during the Soviet era, we used to call the citizens of the Soviet Union just "Russians" although we knew very well that Soviet Union consisted of dozens of different nations.
yes, I know...even now for many people everything what is to east from Poland is Russia, though I guess some people will argue with that _________________
You know, even during the Soviet era, we used to call the citizens of the Soviet Union just "Russians" although we knew very well that Soviet Union consisted of dozens of different nations.
Same here in South Africa. Somehow, "the Soviets" was always used only in a negative sense... _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
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