tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post5470446429407194142..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: THE HOSEPIPE AND THE BUCKET OF FROGS by Eleanor UpdaleMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-11754734470234857792013-06-27T18:09:38.500+01:002013-06-27T18:09:38.500+01:00I love Momma Bear's description! I wish I live...I love Momma Bear's description! I wish I lived in her mind!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-89239225965769620412013-06-25T20:28:06.946+01:002013-06-25T20:28:06.946+01:00Susan Price has expressed very vividly how I I ima...Susan Price has expressed very vividly how I I imagine the past....fab post!adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-83570508854306450532013-06-25T16:56:42.786+01:002013-06-25T16:56:42.786+01:00I think a cash register, one of those big old bras...I think a cash register, one of those big old brass ones you can only find in the museums and reenactment communities. Push a key and the era or date pops up and the drawer opens with all the data inside. <br />Of course I must explain, my brain is a confusing place. Not nearly that neat and tidy!<br />The inside looks like the inside of a lighthouse, with a ramp instead of stairs,with rooms leading off on every level at random intervals.<br />Each room is full to the rafters with books, papers, pictures, paintings and other personal ephemera. <br />Some of it is neatly stored in wood cabinets with glass fronts, curio cabinets, bookshelves, wood file cabinets and tables with comfy chairs and beaded stained glass lamps to read by. The rest is strewn around like a graduate students bedroom on finals night. <br />Some of the drawers and doors are open, papers and books are piled on every surface, some of which are open and marked with knick-knacks to place-keep.<br />so once I find the thing I'm looking for I can drag out an amazing amount of detail to surround it. <br />It's finding where I've put it in the first place that is at times difficult.<br />words to finish a sentence for example, I can see it in my minds-eye but the word to describe it?<br />I usually have to chase the word around a bush, till someone else pulls it out of their heads!Momma Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03215840942640904965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-62699426676053549572013-06-25T16:47:05.927+01:002013-06-25T16:47:05.927+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Momma Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03215840942640904965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-34505840082823446012013-06-25T12:14:00.362+01:002013-06-25T12:14:00.362+01:00It is a great post!
My first thought was that I se...It is a great post!<br />My first thought was that I see history simply as one of those time-lines you find in books. But as I read more of Eleanor's post, I realised that my time-line is much more like her hose-pipe than I'd thought.<br />My time line does go back into the past on the left - but I think mine is more like a slide-rule. There's a 'marker' which slides back to the place I want: and there's a handy magnifying lens on the marker which then enlarges the period I want to look at. Like a slide-rule, it neatly folds up again.<br />Does the past extend to the left because we read from left to right? So what we've already read - the past - is to the left.<br />Odd that we don't see the past as going behind us - I think in some deaf languages you indicate past time by pointing behind you.<br />I'm not synaesthetic, but when Eleanor made me think about it, I realise that the different periods do have different colours for me. I think the colours are influenced by paintings I've seen from different periods. The Tudor period is cramoisie - the Viking Age, for some reason, is tawny, lightening to yellow in places. The French Revolution is purple and green.(I'm reading A Place of Greater Safety at the moment and wow! is all I can say, just wow!)<br />But if you see any subject as a confused bucket of slimy frogs, how could you possibly make sense of it or enjoy it? - There's a whole new theory of education here! Teach them to sort out the frogs before you begin to teach.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-43587400746066525952013-06-25T09:51:50.312+01:002013-06-25T09:51:50.312+01:00A hose-pipe, yes, but with wibbly invisible chunks...A hose-pipe, yes, but with wibbly invisible chunks between the bits I go to frequently ... but without a definite correlation between their (wibbly bits') length and the length of time passed.<br /><br />Well, glad THAT'S cleared up!<br /><br />Great post - thank you! Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-5126844450752432972013-06-25T08:10:46.240+01:002013-06-25T08:10:46.240+01:00I am also a synesthesic. This is another thing I h...I am also a synesthesic. This is another thing I had never realized synesthesic people saw differently. I never thought this was another difference?! It just is my memory - if you see what I mean?! Much like the author my Synesthesic brain see's the past on the left - and the future on the right. It is like an unfolding pop-up map of images with dates - rather like a measured ruler. It's hard to explain in words so others can understand. It's very orderly and is perhaps why I enjoy history so much and have such good recall - as it's all neatly stored and to hand? I never realized others delved in to a bucket of frogs to recall? How messy is that! x Aren't minds fascinating things.........higglepea home edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494424123662638376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-75003216455742245612013-06-25T07:37:31.038+01:002013-06-25T07:37:31.038+01:00This was a fascinating post ! I too have synaesthe...This was a fascinating post ! I too have synaesthesia and see letters and names in terms of their colours. My husband sees history in 3-D as if he were in the centre of a wheel with the various ages of the past radiating out around him,like the spokes. I see history as if I were standing on a meandering tape measure with various centuries linking up to where I am now.it's a convoluted ever moving marker.the future is ahead but not yet definite.very thought provoking stuff !Sunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03883872967866412467noreply@blogger.com