From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fancy that!
"And if I could write I'd love to have the sort of patience that can plough
through endless old files and letters in dusty foreign archives, looking for
things nobody knew before. It must take years unless you have a team of
researchers."
Patrick O'Brien did that very thing. I used to love reading his Aubrey/Maturin
series of nautical novels. Later I started reading about that period and read
up on some of the naval engagements of the time and discovered that some of the
descriptions of battles he lifted almost verbatim from old records and eye
witness accounts. Still, he was a grand writer in my opinion.
My favorite author is Dorothy Dunnett, who did the same thing. She has actually
been praised for being precise and accurate in her citations of real history
"in the same way that Patrick O'Brian was, but better." Numerous historians
have commented that her two great historical novel sets -- "The Game of Kings"
and "The House of Nicolo" are "on the whole, more accurate than most of the
history books you can find that deal with the same eras. Dorothy also wrote a
marvelous book called "King Hereafter" that was a telling of the story of the
*real* Scottish king Macbeth. She considered it her masterpiece.
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:45 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fancy that!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote :
Re : "But as I was finishing my book on The Great Escape ":
I asked you a short while back if you were a professional writer as you do post
polished prose in your messages. You said you weren't!
I am undone! But not really. To excuse the poor writing here I was refering to
a book I mentioned earlier in the day in another post. Without that pre-loading
I would have said "Guy Wilson's book on the Great Escape."
And if I could write I'd love to have the sort of patience that can plough
through endless old files and letters in dusty foreign archives, looking for
things nobody knew before. It must take years unless you have a team of
researchers.
You also seem to have lived in a lot of TMO mansions! You don't have a golden
crown at home do you?
I coulda been a contender...
They really wanted me to do TTC for some reason, probably because I'm
relatively outgoing and don't look like one of those pale cave fish that most
long term movement types remind you of after their years of eating rice and
dhal on long rounding courses.
But to do that you have to have studied SCI - Science of Creative Intelligence,
and after my experience of the Total Knowledge course the whole thing was
pretty much out of the question. I seriously doubt they'd let me teach as
promoting the "knowledge" is part of the job description. Their loss.
So eventual elevation to the heights of Rajadom wasn't going to happen as all
TM hoops have to be jumped through before you get a gig like that I should
think.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
In the late '90's the TMO acquired a mansion in a highly sought after part of
London. Namely Kensington palace gardens. It was a fabulous house, right
opposite Kensington palace. Huge place with double iron gates and a massive
ballroom.
It faced east too. The heads of the movement all lived there and all said how
amazing the perfect vastu felt. I lived there too for a while, just helping out
the media department. Great place to stay as the big knobs sure knew how to
live, bespoke silk carpets and the best food eaten off mahogany tables.
The idea was that they'd use it to wine and dine the rich and famous thus
spreading TM to the top of society, as was Marshy's wish at the time. "The rich
won't eat in a poor house" he said, they sure didn't here! Not that all that
many came. Hardly any in fact, but the intention was a good one if you approve
of that sort of elitism. I didn't but staying there made a nice change from our
draughty, cold and empty mansion in the Bedfordshire countryside.
But as I was finishing my book on The Great Escape I was reminded that the
house had a rather more chequered history than expected. It was owned and used
by MI6 to interrogate captured Nazi officers during and after WW2. Including
the masterminds of the massacre that wiped out 50 allied airmen in 1944.
Fancy that, I might have slept in a room that was once occupied by a terrified
Gestapo murderer who sat awake all night dreading his fate at the hands of a
war crimes tribunal. I wonder if they appreciated the vastu at all?
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