Journal Entry: Nonfiction..

Journal Entry (nonfiction):


If you could occupy the world occupied in a novel, which would you choose? [taken from the book “IF” by Evelyn McFarlane and James Saywell]

Garsh, any where but here, really. I mean, with the wonderous worlds that books creates, even the evilest of ones, there’s more existing, there’s more excitement, there’s more adventure then this world can ever have!

The first world I would be drawn too is the world that took me to novels in the first place. Sherlock Holmes’ gaslamp existence in Edwardian and Victorian England. I’m not one to believe in past lives, but I have consistently been drawn to this exciting time when the boundaries of life were being rewritten in London. Steamerpunk (think of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) was massively exciting, providing today’s technology but keeping the novelty of worlds yet to be explored . Jack the Ripper was haunting the streets, and trust me, I’ve read several novels about that creature. HP Lovecraft even pulled the style over to Boston, but the feel, the emotion, the DARK would still be there.

I have wondered, at times, there was something about past lives attached to this wonderment I have about this time period. There's an envigorating energy that comes across me when I read tales from this time period, this concept of, well, familiarity, that makes me feel kinda creeped out.

Okay, if you read my last post, you also know I’m a comic book freak. How I would kill to jump into the world of Metropolis, Gotham City or Genosha. Heck, I’ll even go one step further and say Paragon City. Yeah, I’d be a superhero. I’d fly. I’d stop bank robbers. I’d be thin.

And even though I’ve played in the worlds of Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms, I don’t think the wonderments of Dungeons and Dragons would draw me in.

There were no toilets frankly.

But there is one world I would live in. Yes, it’s been novels. You’ve all been to Disney World. What I would do to live in those clean reproductions of tomorrow like Tomorrowland or Adventureland. I don’t know why those two would pull me so, but if I had to live IN an attraction (no novel required), it would be the Haunted Mansion. Gotta be.

Does Hollywood of the Day of the Locust count?