(April 25, 2013 at 8:36 am)Rhythm Wrote: Well, he clearly went about it in the wrong way. Perhaps he should have harped on about how the suitability for conflict of a great many technologies and their surplus is what led to their being leveraged (and forming the cornerstone of) our modern agricultural methodologies?
He kept trying to get me interested in the machines and guns, and I liked the stories and the people.
Take the Bull Run Battlefield, for instance. The scattered cannons and other paraphanalia didn't interest me so much as reading about the men hiding in the long grass in the exhausting Virginia heat to surprise the advancing side coming over the lip of the gully they were waiting in. Or seeing the graffiti left by soldiers.
You know me, Rhythm. It's the stories that always hold me. The true ones, and the ones meant to deliver a truth by fantastical means.