[Steppes] Once upon a time.............A myth revisited
Jay Rudin
rudin at ev1.net
Tue Apr 22 08:02:57 PDT 2003
Lord Padric,
> You honor me in such a fashion that I am humbled by your words of praise.
> But I am already a humble person, and would like to adjust a few things
that
> are a little bardicly enhanced I am afraid.
Stories are *supposed* to be told in a bardic style.
> See that is just the romantic version, I was actually ....
It's not "just" the romantic version. It's the ROMANTIC version -- the
Ansteorran version. What you told was just the literal version.
> the king recounted the day's event (with much embellishments)
Good for him -- that's his job.
Guys wear dresses in a cow pasture and hit each other with sticks. Or we
shoot archery in the twenty-first century wearing leather and lace. Romance
is our tool to make these silly things grand, glorious and honorable.
We're Ansteorrans -- we're *supposed* to be larger than life.
You find yourself standing in the middle of a great tale of honor, devotion,
and glory. Why are you trying to return to the prosaic world?
Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
Maxwell Scott, *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance*:
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