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- From: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim)
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- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <725446268.F00003@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:16:50
- Lines: 42
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- Gwydden Lawen wrote:
-
- G> But the nice thing about that society is that it isn't fixed,
- G> that individuals can easily change it ...
-
- We Better Sort consider that a bug, not a feature.
-
- G> ... -- get something to happen three
- G> times, and you've created a sacred tradition, after all-- and so if the
- G> rules for heraldry change, then people will conform to the new rules,
- G> and that will change what the SCA's heraldic style looks like. Is
- G> there anything wrong with that?
-
- *sigh* Yeah. It Ain't Period to change things every other week.
-
- Three times does not a tradition make except in the rootless plastic
- make-believe modern world (of which the SCA is far too typical an
- example). The essence of a Real Tradition is doing it one way because
- nobody can remember when it *wasn't* done that way (the technical term
- is "time out of mind" or, more formally, "time whence the memory of man
- runneth not to the contrary").
-
- I recommend to your attention a very good (and thick) book, *La
- Tradition et Les Traditions" by Yves Congar, OP (available in English
- translation for the culturally challenged). Ignore the theological
- essay if you wish (although it would profit much to read it); the
- historical essay alone is well worth digesting.
-
- G> Tadhg later says that his heraldic preferences are "south of the
- G> Trent, north of the Loire, west of the Rhine, 1100-1400", though.
- G> Does that mean you think the SCA should intentionally steer its own
- G> heraldic style to be like this, or that's just where your
- G> aesthetic ideals lie?
-
- Both. As anyone in the College of Arms can tell you, the congruence
- between my aesthetic ideals and how God intended things to be
- asymptotically approaches identity. 8-)
-
- Tadhg, Obelisk
-
-
- * Origin: Herald's Point * Steppes/Ansteorra * 214-699-0057 (1:124/4229)
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