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elanya at 04:21pm on 23/10/2005
elanya at 04:21pm on 23/10/2005I am doing readings form my Landscape class. One of them, by W. Scott Howard, is about landscape and memorialization.
It focuses on the concept of Arcadia, which, as a Changeling player, I found fascinating. It has the following things to say about Acrcadia:
"Arcadia is an imaginary world at the crossroads between nature and culture where loss may be transformed into gain; the tragic past, into the desired present/future." Basically, he sees it as an ideal places that we love because it is perfect, and makes us sad because we can't stay, and that this makes a good analogy in memorialization. It just *reads*& very Changelingl-y, although I'm sure WW picked up on this concept of Arcaadia and ran with it, rather than anything else. Still, I've never seen it crop up before, yet this guy talks about it as though it should be familiar.
In the same article... he references Sandman. As in has a two page copy of the end of the Morpheus/Orpheus thing, where the former walks away form the latter's disembodied head, telling him they'll never see each other again. I'm not sure the significance of this bit yet, since I haven't read that far, but.... Holy geeks in academia, Batman ;)
Now, do I mean me, or the author, or both....?
:D
It focuses on the concept of Arcadia, which, as a Changeling player, I found fascinating. It has the following things to say about Acrcadia:
"Arcadia is an imaginary world at the crossroads between nature and culture where loss may be transformed into gain; the tragic past, into the desired present/future." Basically, he sees it as an ideal places that we love because it is perfect, and makes us sad because we can't stay, and that this makes a good analogy in memorialization. It just *reads*& very Changelingl-y, although I'm sure WW picked up on this concept of Arcaadia and ran with it, rather than anything else. Still, I've never seen it crop up before, yet this guy talks about it as though it should be familiar.
In the same article... he references Sandman. As in has a two page copy of the end of the Morpheus/Orpheus thing, where the former walks away form the latter's disembodied head, telling him they'll never see each other again. I'm not sure the significance of this bit yet, since I haven't read that far, but.... Holy geeks in academia, Batman ;)
Now, do I mean me, or the author, or both....?
:D
amused