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katzmarek wrote:
> Kenny N Gamera wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 11 May 2005 21:06:28 GMT, tenyari <tenyari@AThotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> A lot of what we write begins with an unrealistic or unreasonable
>>> sexual fantasy, and as writers we want people to get into that
>>> fantasy and go along with us for the ride of exploring it. But if you
>>> in silliness like the overly measured statistics, breasts that grow
>>> in a week, teenagers with home built super science hovercrafts, or
>>> penguins eating polar bears it's just going to detract from the rest
>>> of your tale.
>>
>>
>>
>> What if you are TRYING to be silly or fantastic? And if what you
>> listed are examples of factual errors, what does that leave for the
>> fantasy, that some hot babe might actually talk to scum like us?
>>
>> Thank You and Good Day,
>> Kenny N Gamera
>> turtlemeat69@hotmail.com
>
>
> Well, I've written a number of stories set in countries that I have very
> little direct knowledge of. In such cases I use my faithful atlas to
> calculate travel times, find suitable place names, etc.
>
> I get tripped up occasionally because some names have changed or didn't
> exist in the era I've set the story.
>
> Now my only experience of Russia was when St Petersburg was called
> Leningrad and Finnish Vodka tourists were being arrested for swimming
> naked in the fountains. I've never experienced a Russian Winter and
> don't care to. Perestroika was a distant dream for a few intellectuals
> and writers and Eric Hoenecker was still President of something called,
> the German Democratic Republic.
>
> You waited forever to get a visa but could be fast-tracked if you went
> as part of a tour party. The agio at the border scalped you of US
> dollars and handed you a million roubles printed on tissue paper so thin
> you wanted to blow your nose on the bills.
>
> Colour film was made in East Germany and the all the colours faded
> within a week except red.
>
> The tour guide took you to 'Tourist Stores' where the locals couldn't go
> and they fleeced you of your million roubles for Russian dolls made in
> the Caucasus by 'traditional craftsmen' working in large factories.
>
> Vodka, however, was cheap and plentiful and of excellent quality if you
> can stand the stuff. (You must freeze it first with the glasses then
> belt it down in one gulp. Don't smash the glasses against the fireplace
> because there isn't any [they use gas] and the glasses cost a month's
> wages.)
>
> Cigarettes were, to say the least, an acquired taste, and if you think
> French Cigarettes are strong you ain't tried 'Pushkins'. If the
> ventilation isn't working they'll kill any potplant within seconds. A
> respirator could be bought on the black market and was a handy accessory
> to Russian cigarettes.
Not a patch on Dutch 'Schipper's Tabak,' however. Instant asthma in a pouch.
> All that colour is not worth much if you want to portray Russian
> characters. It's looking in from the outside to a culture the locals
> take for granted. It's using Western eyes and comparing.
>
> Language is a problem and here I use poetic license. My characters speak
> in English, making English jokes and puns that would be mystfying to a
> Russian. No easy way around that.
>
> Don