Thu, 19 May 2005

the old atlantis
It was the fashion of the time for artists to paint scenes of heroic battle, landscapes filled with the dead and dying, of cavalries descending from the hills, and as there were only so many actual battles to depict, the artists took to inventing new battles. At first this upset no one, as production boomed and the historians thought that popular culture had no effect on scholarly pursuits, but soon the people demanded the histories of these battles, and those scholars who denied the existence of these wars were shunned and starved and buried alive, so it was decided that an imaginary country would be created, cast toward the beginning of time, where any and all imaginary histories could be staged, and while the historians were uncertain of the admission of fantasy as fact, they thought at least it would always be obvious and apparent how honest a historical anecdote was by a quick check of longitude and latitude.
(12:26.05.19.2005) [/scrytch] #