What comes to the historical feeling/alternate history, I somehow prefer the "alternate world" approach. Like what could have been if the laws of nature would have taken a different turn. Like for example world may basically deep below the surface function by the rules of symphatic magic, whereas a metaphorical action may actually change real things. Something along the lines that a deed of self sacrifice may save the world even if it is realistically futile. This kind of things are also part of my preferance of black and white fantasy to shades of grey.
This perhaps also explains my desire to keep the story separate from history. As I desire the laws of nature to take a different twist in the world of the story and also simultaneously believe in the laws of the social dynamics and historical dialectics in this one... this leaves me only one option... that the historical timeline of my story has no connection to that of the real world.
This may also have something to do with a yet unexplored question of WHY of the fantasy.
Janne Harju
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09-16-2002, 01:08 AM
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