Just read an interesting blog post about Metal Detectorist and Historical Sites in Britain. The author was complaining about people who use metal detectors going over historic sites and in essense "looting" (my word, not his) the site. This is something I never considered before. But it does make sense that people should not be trespassing on designated historic sites, or even private property with a metal detector. Because who ever owns the site is the real owner of whatever is under the soil, whoever happens to find it.
However, there is a grey line when one talks about people who have permission to use a metal detector over neighboring property.
I was thinking that this whole dispute might be settled with a bit of creative permitting, in the same way we do permiting for hunting here in the states. It could provide revenue that would go to preserving historical sites and enforce rules regarding the finding and preserving of antiquities...Just an idea.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
The Brother's Grimm Frog Prince
I am feeling a bit uncharitable today.
You hear so much about the Brothers Grimm, and their fairy tales. Having written a book that includes a frog prince, I thought I would take a look at the Frog Prince, by the Brothers Grimm in its original.
I generally have a high tolerance for old style writing, having been an avid reader of Dickens, Tolstoy, Hardy, and the other greats of the 19th Century. But I found the brothers to be rather feeble writers as far as plot development goes.
Granted, that old time fairy-tales tend to be rather sketchy, especially regarding characterization, I thought this one to be sad, and came to the conclusion that the main reason the Brothers have a reputation is that they were first on the scene.
I believe that people of antiquity to the present were just as smart and capable as we are, especially in matters of philosophy and literature, so it is hard for me to cut the brothers any slack based on the fact that they wrote a couple hundred years ago. It is not like they were putting paintings on the wall of a cave for the first time in the history of man, and having to mix their own colors to boot.
Maybe, it is just sour grapes on my part. The Brothers have sold more copies of their book than I have of mine. Help me out here and buy a copy of Grezundl and the Frog Prince. It will make me feel a bit more charitable.
You hear so much about the Brothers Grimm, and their fairy tales. Having written a book that includes a frog prince, I thought I would take a look at the Frog Prince, by the Brothers Grimm in its original.
I generally have a high tolerance for old style writing, having been an avid reader of Dickens, Tolstoy, Hardy, and the other greats of the 19th Century. But I found the brothers to be rather feeble writers as far as plot development goes.
Granted, that old time fairy-tales tend to be rather sketchy, especially regarding characterization, I thought this one to be sad, and came to the conclusion that the main reason the Brothers have a reputation is that they were first on the scene.
I believe that people of antiquity to the present were just as smart and capable as we are, especially in matters of philosophy and literature, so it is hard for me to cut the brothers any slack based on the fact that they wrote a couple hundred years ago. It is not like they were putting paintings on the wall of a cave for the first time in the history of man, and having to mix their own colors to boot.
Maybe, it is just sour grapes on my part. The Brothers have sold more copies of their book than I have of mine. Help me out here and buy a copy of Grezundl and the Frog Prince. It will make me feel a bit more charitable.
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