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Your life as a historical novel
This week's little assignment is to rewrite the story of your life in a pre-technological time period. You need to follow the basic narrative of your life as closely as possible, while adapting all of the details of fit in with your chosen historical context. How easy or hard will this assignment be? What aspects of your life would require the trickiest rewriting to fit into an earlier era?
I think it would be pretty easy to rewrite my life story in a pre-technological time period. I always imagine my life as a myth or fairy tale. The computer/internet would need the most replacing, but a lot of that could be replaced by traditional letter-writing and journalling on paper. For certain time periods and places it would be unusual for me to have as much of an education as I do, but maybe if I were from a wealthier family I would have private tutors... I'd probably write myself as living a pretty solitary lifestyle with relationships based on letter writing, like Emily Dickinson, and living with my family while doing a lot of writing, reading, and art. I could have entered my relationship with Michael through letter writing. My life as it is now is pretty simple, even with all the technology. I'd probably go to more plays and music events in-person if the technology I now use for those were not available.
Your life as a historical novel
This week's little assignment is to rewrite the story of your life in a pre-technological time period. You need to follow the basic narrative of your life as closely as possible, while adapting all of the details of fit in with your chosen historical context. How easy or hard will this assignment be? What aspects of your life would require the trickiest rewriting to fit into an earlier era?
I think it would be pretty easy to rewrite my life story in a pre-technological time period. I always imagine my life as a myth or fairy tale. The computer/internet would need the most replacing, but a lot of that could be replaced by traditional letter-writing and journalling on paper. For certain time periods and places it would be unusual for me to have as much of an education as I do, but maybe if I were from a wealthier family I would have private tutors... I'd probably write myself as living a pretty solitary lifestyle with relationships based on letter writing, like Emily Dickinson, and living with my family while doing a lot of writing, reading, and art. I could have entered my relationship with Michael through letter writing. My life as it is now is pretty simple, even with all the technology. I'd probably go to more plays and music events in-person if the technology I now use for those were not available.