SC - Re: sca-cooks Creativity and does it matter?

[Ray Caughlin]

The Society is a group of people on a quest to discover the past, each with
their own idea of how to do that. This is where the creativity comes in.
Should we worry about being correct and authentic all the time??? Insert
creativity here. Should we become fashion police??? Creativity break! 

Each one of us needs to enjoy the society in the way that pleases us. I
choose to be as authentic as possible and help anyone else who feels the
same. Each of us has our own definition of what the society is for us and
how we want to live in it. So lets put our dictionaries away. It makes it
seem that this ever changing thing that we call SCA can be pinned down with
mere words. We are as ever a (S)light (C)onnundrum (A)s always!

Twenty-five years of thought went into this. I hope it shows! I also hope
that it is accepted in a light and loving spirit:~)

Lord Mandrigal of Mu
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> From: Mark Schuldenfrei <schuldy at abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU>
> To: sca-cooks at eden.com
> Subject: Re: SC - Re: sca-cooks Creativity
> Date: Friday, April 18, 1997 3:11 PM
> 
> I'd written:
>   >Robin Vinehall wrote:
>   >  We are, after all, supposed to be creatively anachronistic.
>   >
>   >"I don theen that phrase meens wha' you theen it meens".
> 
> About which I was told, by Donna White:
>   Perhaps we are all allowed our own interpretation.  Whatdya theen abot
>   tht?
>   
> Sure.  But, let us do so in an informed way.
> 
> anach.ro.nism 
>    [prob. fr. MGk anachronismos, fr.  anachronizesthai to be an
>    anachro]nism, fr. LGk anachronizein to be late, fr. Gk ana- +
>    chronos time 1: an error in chronology; esp : a chronological
>    misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each
>    other 2: a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place -
>    anachronistic aj
> 
> We combine items that were from separate times and places, that would
> otherwise be anachronistic.  Like my marriage between a 1384 Savoyard and
a
> late 16th century Italian...
> 
> It doesn't mean to just lay down the boogie from anywhere and anytime and
> call it period.  Does it?
> 
> 	Tibor