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 |   Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills. |
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Enga mellom Fjella  Sentinel Marked as if you own me I bow before the Bitterroots and just like you my rocky soil, my withered grass lays prey to the empty sky. © Kåre Enga 2007 "Sentinel"   Reader's Choice of Poems: "Sentinel" "In Lagada, la vita" "Tales told over scones and hot tea" "Speak soft my name" "Mauve Mavis" Reader's Choice of blog entries from my old blog "L'aura del Campo" :"Death of Jeannie New Moon" "Doing and don'ting. A scene in 2nd person." "In a garden of roses, baby" "Holy day. Autumn in November. A mole." "Poems inspired by maps. Remember 1963?" FACES     PLACES            Kåre  Enga~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. ~ Elizabeth Bishop The Fish |
| edwords is a newbie old-timer. He asked about time/place for an historical story. Part of what I suggested was this [edited]: This is a fascinating clip of the first car race on the Isle of Man, 1904. It's black/white/silent of course; but, what did it smell like? sound like? taste like (dust in the mouth?) even look like (clothes, colors, landscape) what was it like to touch one of cars? Everyone always focuses on the winner but car #17 came in third as seen at the end. What is their story? All of the young children are long dead now but my grandmother was 12 that year. What would she have thought? Would a young couple have gone to gawk? I dunno... but you might. You could even visit later this year and drive/walk part of the route. Snafel (Snaefell, Manx: Sniaull) the mountain is mentioned and the electric railroad to the top there dates from 1895 and is still in operation. 1895-1905 was a time of great change. This would make an interesting backdrop and setting (and it's NOT London). In truth... any narrow focus would help with a story (whether it be romance, mystery, adventure, detective, YA). And much can be found on the internet these days. If YOU dear readers had to write a story based on this what would you focus on? The drivers? The officials? The kids? The onlookers? The bird squawking in a tree? How could you make that moment come alive (anticipation before, the event, after it's over)? Originally posted on Newsfeed. Do I dare right a story meself? |
| I commented to SusanFarmer: "TV? I watched a Thai series where one character (a ghost for 20 years) mentions "television" to a young man who laughs saying he hadn't heard that word since his father died. Folks watch on monitors and screens nowadays? The ghost apparently died holding his walkman with 1990s music. The young man had no idea what that was! I absolutely loved "He's coming to me". I'm thinking of watching Nordic Noir (2010s) now on you-tube (2005) on my chromebook (2011). All neologisms that someone from the 1990s might find amusing." I should think about this as words, expressions, symbols come in and out of use or change meanings, sometimes postive to negative or the reverse. Like the Dixie flag (actually a military flag from Northern Virginia). IMHO, it's actually a beautiful flag. But growing up in the North it just meant "Southern" or perjoritively "hick" and later "NASCAR". Of course, it had other not-so-innocent meanings ... and it's usage nowadays has taken on a sinister tone along with it's symbol of a defeated racist nation. Rationally it's quite a symbolic flag (13 stars, simple design) but its origins and misusage tarnish it. Same with the ancient swastika that the NAZIs subverted or inverted religious symbols. But neologisms are different in the sense that they describe what didn't exist or existed without a word for it. Like plate tectonics (1915) in geology. The industrial revolution and tech revolution have hundreds of words that we take for granted not realizing how recent they are. Even my grandmother (born 1892) may have known the word "automobile" growing up but no one had one. By the time she died in 1985 we had "disco" and "walkmans" (1977). I use the internet every day not pausing to think that I didn't grow up with it or that few under 30 in America have never been without it. |
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