Using the TARDIS...

[fajrdrako]

From fannish5: What are the five most interesting uses of time travel?

Well - a question tailor made for a Doctor Who fan.

1. To explore brave new worlds and to boldly go... places. (Cf. any episode of Doctor Who set in a strange, exotic place, like New Earth.)


2. To mess with the heads of people who don't get it that you can be in the past and the future at, so to speak, the same time. (Cf. "Blink")


3. To see historical events, e.g., the end of the world, or a Shakespeare play at the Globe Theatre in 1599.


4. To meet interesting people. Myself, I'd choose Henry II Plantagenet and Eleanor of Acquitaine, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, Shelley and Byron, and Emma Goldman. For starters.


5. To give myself advice when young. Of course, I would never follow it.

Comments

[atheneunknown.livejournal.com]

I'm barrowing this and many of your other meme type things for my LJ, its been boring lately lol.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Have fun with it, then!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

4. definitely, though the temptation would be to interfere. I do have a Girl Guide badge in First Aid… ;-D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was thinking of scenes like that! I wondered if I could get Conrad to listen to me beforehand: "No, don't go out tonight! No, don't take that route! Beware the Ides of - "

No one ever listens to the soothsayers.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

12C dinner-time was what we would call lunchtime, so it wasn't a case of "tonight".

"Now, don't go out without your gambeson and mail, dear: we don't want to risk anything nasty before the coronation."

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

"Today" then.

And stay away from sharp objects!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

"Don't stop to talk to anyone in the street. Certainly not the servants."

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

"And don't linger anywhere!"

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

"If someone says they have a letter for you, tell them to give it to the guard. And have your sword ready."

[filkferengi]

Margaret Ball, who has written with Anne McCaffrey & several fantasy novels on her own, has a fairly recent novel out called _Duchess of Aquitaine_ you might enjoy. Have you ever read _A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver_ by E.L. Konigsburg? It's about Eleanor too.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I have certainly read A Proud Taste for Scalet and Miniver, but I never heard of Duchess of Acquitaine. I'll look for it - thanks!

[filkferengi]

Hey, for you, any time. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The local library has a copy, so I requested it.

[filkferengi]

Let me know what you think. I have it, but haven't read it yet.