tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post8542095061706721693..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Great Cathedrals in Time and Space by Emma DarwinMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-90978246860836571142012-03-06T17:39:24.339+00:002012-03-06T17:39:24.339+00:00Glad everyone liked it.
Dianne, thanks - I'm...Glad everyone liked it. <br /><br />Dianne, thanks - I'm sorry to be leaving too - but something had to give!<br /><br />Mary, I know exactly what you mean - sounds like the sort of state I think of as "skinned". But usually it comes to me when history is physically present - buildings, tombs, artifacts, whatever. What was interesting to me about that evening in the Turbine Hall was that it couldn't have been a more modern - well, 20th Century - building and subject for the evening, recalling something purely by the arrangement of space - bricks enclosing air - and the significance of the moment...Emma Darwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15187679025319051708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-72027143085208558142012-03-06T15:21:31.633+00:002012-03-06T15:21:31.633+00:00You made me think of occasions when I was in the v...You made me think of occasions when I was in the very places I've written about and the awesomeness of time fills every crevice such that I want to weep or sit down and write. A recent trip to Ypres comes to mind, a city that figures in two of the WWI stories I've written. Walking its streets and the surrounding land where so many died amidst noise and chaos so fierce men knew they were in hell was a very moving experience.Mary Todhttp://awriterofhistory.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-71130823452660644442012-03-05T20:07:24.890+00:002012-03-05T20:07:24.890+00:00Fascinating post Emma. I particularly loved the ju...Fascinating post Emma. I particularly loved the juxtaposition of the two images. The vast Turbine Hall and the tiny viewers within the space - the same for the Grote Kerk in Haarlem - those vast vaults dwarfing the people. And I thought your comparison of historical novels being written in the same way as Tacita Dean works with film - a process of layering - extremely apt. Well done on your RLF Fellowship. Sorry you are leaving us.Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-52361760960486314472012-03-05T12:29:49.674+00:002012-03-05T12:29:49.674+00:00Beautifully written, as ever, Emma. You'll be...Beautifully written, as ever, Emma. You'll be missed on History Girls. My daughter and I sat cross-legged on cold concrete for half an hour, spellbound by Tacita Dean's film. And we both likened it to sitting in a cathedral looking up at stained glass windows.Linda B-Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01599899073420595717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-72379429410079327122012-03-05T11:51:54.483+00:002012-03-05T11:51:54.483+00:00Exquisitely put, and very evocative.Exquisitely put, and very evocative.Lydia Sysonnoreply@blogger.com