[Sca-cooks] Overdocumentation
Bill Fisher
liamfisher at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 16:04:18 PST 2004
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:02:51 -0500, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise
<jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
> *shrug* It's certainly possible to explain one's documentation in
> persona in many cases, by simply stating your sources. I more or less
> did this with my Poliudie menu, and I'll be doing it when I write the
> 'period treatise' for the Laurel Prize in March (because it's absolutely
> period to reference the authorities!)
>
> "I got this recipe from a Spanish chap called de Nola"...
>
> But then, I'm Polish, and all Polish people of significance in period
> spoke Latin. Obviously you must be speaking Latin too.
>
> --
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
> "The toad beneath the harrow knows/exactly where each tooth-point goes,
> The butterfly upon the road/Preaches contentment to that toad."
> - Rudyard Kipling
>
True, true, but there is just no way a 10th C Irishman is going to
know about things after his period. *shrugs*
I'm willing to go with suspension of disbelief for the most part though.
Cadoc
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