Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    north america, 500 to 600 years ago.  I want to see the forest, and the
    prarie, before WE got here and changed it all.
    
    I'd enjoy bringing a horse, but horses caused a lot of disruption to
    the people living here, so I'm not sure.  I do want to bring a couple
    of well-trained dogs, of various sizes.
    
    I want to keep all my vaccinations, and to bring along a good supply of
    antibiotics.  Is that cheating?
    
    Star Trek did an episode like this once y'know.  The one where the
    planet was gonna be destroyed (nova? earthquake? I forget) and the
    people had time travel, everybody got to pick a past epoch to relocate
    in.  Kirk tried to rescue some screamer and got stuck in a witch-hunt.

    King Arthur's court...I'd be Lady Guenevere (sp?)...

    A Shaolin monk in old China - Kwai-Chang Charbonneau has a nice ring,
    doesn't it ? :-)
    
    A tribesman of the Seneca back 300 years ago. (Joke seen in a
    bar - "When white men came to this land, women did all the work,
    men hunted and fished all day. There were no taxes and no debts.
    White man thought he could improve on a system like that!")

    Able bodied spacer on a Federation starship, ca. 2300 AD.

        

    An amazon, skilled in swordplay and with the use of a bow.  I'd hunt
    for myself, take care of myself, fight well, live well, rest well,
    write my own battle chants, worshipthe goddess, and die honorably.
    
    -Jody

    	I'd like to go back to the early 1900s to talk to Major
    	Taylor. Of course, I'd wanna go back knowing what I know
    	now about race relations. I'll bet he'd have some stories
    	to tell.
    
    	In the late 1800s/early 1900s, Major Taylor was the finest
    	cyclist in the world. He raced all over the world. He was
    	also black, hence my interest in how he was treated.
    
    	Scott (neither a famous cyclist nor black)

    Oh, so *that's* who Major Taylor was!  I always wondered.  They named a
    velodrome after him in the city where I used to live, Indianapolis.
    
    -- Mike

    I'm not sure, but I *think* I already _am_!
    
    E Grace

Re: .8

> I'm not sure, but I *think* I already _am_!


I'm sure. I am. I might like to *visit* some historical times, but I'm way too
wedded to my modern creature comforts to want to LIVE there. I get twitchy when
I'm too long away from e-mail... :-) I can't abide the notion of body lice, and
I'm quite fond of modern dentistry (people used to DIE of tooth decay!) Now I'd
like to go back to my fantasies of what the past was like, but I'm too hard
headed to want to really do it. Hell, I get depressed visiting third world 
countries in the 20th century. I can't believe the past was any better...

I'd like to see the future, both near and far, but I'm certain I wouldn't have
enough context to understand the far future, and seeing the near future would
be too much like peeking at the back of a mystery novel. Getting there is
half the fun!

	-- Charles

    I would like to try the 50's.  I would like to had been there when the 
    Beatles were 'in' also when Elvis was big.  The 50's to me seemed like
    a very exciting time.  Soc hops, drive-in movies...etc  
    
    I'm not sure if I would bring any knowledge of what I know now or if I 
    did I wouldn't try and alter time. 
    
    I would also like to see what it was like in the old west!  When
    cowboys and indians settled on our land.  I love history!  Although, I 
    think that it should never repeat itself......  There were too many
    mistakes made and ones that should never happen again.
    
    Deb

    Early 19th Century Spanish California. I'd be Zorro. :-)
    
    But seriously...well, a little bit seriously...I always wanted to
    be a cowboy, so I guess I'd pick post-Civil War western US.
    
    --- jerry

    
    Minoan Crete - "The Chalice and the Blade" sold me on it! ;-)
    I'd be a musician by profession, maybe a harpist....
    
    'gail
    

    re .10 umm, Deb, how _young_ are you ? The Beatles were a
    *60's* phenom.
    
    The bad thing about the young is they make the middle-aged feel
    old :-)
    
    Dana

    The Beatles...The Beatles...hey, wasn't that the band that had
    Julian Lennon's father in it?
    
    --- jerry

    
    I think I would like to live in the year 3000. That is if the earth
    has'nt been destroyed. I would love to be a part of the expected 
    changes in technology maybe even traveling to another planet. Kind
    of like the movie "Total Recall".z
    

    re .10  I am trying to decide if your reply was cruel or not.  I was
    a teenager in the '50's.  I wish I had saved the Elvis memorabilia of
    the time...
    
    For me Concord I would like to live in Concord during the time of 
    Alcott, Thoreau and other great artists.  Many of the old homes 
    remain and you can feel the history as you walk a two mile radius
    of the center.  
    
    In fact I wouldn't mind living in Concord right now!  The only
    affordable housing is the housing for the elderly.  Mother lives
    there, but I don't qualify yet.  So the '50's weren't that long
    ago. ;-)

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>Re: .8
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>> I'm not sure, but I *think* I already _am_!
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>
>I'm sure. I am. I might like to *visit* some historical times, but I'm way too
    
    Er, I think you misunderstood.  I meant I think I'm already living in 
    some other time and/or place.  It's that time warp existence, don't ya 
    know.
    
    E Grace

    I follow a bit answer .15, year 3000 but... I read the novel "Creed for 
    the Third Milleniun and... they were getting into another ice age,
    children were limited to the point of use of government sponsored
    lotery for the "right" of having a second child...(so limited the Earth
    resources were at the time...) of course the book is science fiction,
    but...it is such a big possibility that THAT might happen to our Earth
    that... I wouldn't want to see it! 
    I will stick with MY time and do the best of it! (old times were not
    any better and, I hate lice and vermin, those were rampant in Middle
    Ages anywhere, with the exception of Japan but I wouldn't live among
    samurais and spartan boiled rice either...)

    Like Charles, I'm happy right now.  Visit other eras, for short
    periods, maybe.  Hear the Sermon on the Mount 'live'.  See the opening
    of the Sistine Chapel.  Visit the Rockies with the first US mountain
    men.  But the reality of the living conditions - no central heating, no
    indoor plumbing (imagine life with no hot showers), limited (and 
    frequently poor) diet, the crowding, those things are not for me.
    
    The other thing I often consider - if going backwards or to another
    time meant living one's *full* lifetime in the past, I can't think of a
    period or era that didn't include at least one major natural or
    economic disaster.  Truly, I don't believe that there was ever a time
    significantly different in terms of how it felt to live emotionally, in
    the day-to-day cares and concerns, than what we have now.  (And I use
    that as a way of looking at today *positively*.)
    
    Alison 

    The 60's and to be the first person on the moon
    
    or
    
    pre-civil war-to be a rich Southern Belle on a big plantation, however,
                  without slavery
    
    or
    
    I can't remember the time period, but to be in Ireland at the same time
    as chronicled by Leon Uris in Trinity (and be a Catholic subversive)
    
    or
    
    there are just too many other times I would love to visit, some
    serious, and some not.
    
    Oh, yeah, if I could go back to the mid-thirties, armed with my
    knowledge of today, and get rid of Hitler prior to the atrocities
    he perpetuated.
    
    Christine

I wouldn't want to go back to another time period if I had to *stay*
there, but there are a few eras I'd like to be able to visit for awhile.
I wouldn't  want to stay away permanently mostly because of modern
medical advances, and I'd also miss rock music and wearing jeans
*a lot*.

I would most like to be able to take a shopping trip back to the jewelry,
clothing and furniture stores of the 1880's and 1890's in London, Paris, 
NY and Boston, and be able to bring everything I bought back with me.
Of course, one condition of the trip would be that I would have to have
a lot of the currency of the day to spend. :-)

I have also always been intrigued with civilian life in the U.S.
and England during the 1940's because I have the feeling that 
it was the last of an era.  I think the world and the way people
think and live changed radically after WWII (some for the better,
some for the worse) and I'd like to be able to go back and
visit that time and see what it was like.

I would also like to visit the Left Bank in Paris during the
1920's and hang out with the American writers like Hemingway, etc.,
for awhile.

And, my another trip back I'd like to take would be to visit 
North America (very briefly) in the 1600's.  I'd like to be
able to fly over it invisibly in a bubble :-) so I could see
what it looked like before civilization took over.  It must
have been breathtakingly beautiful compared to anything that's
around today.

re Joyce, I would also have liked to meet Thoreau.  Sorry Dorian,
:-), but despite his supposed sexism, he's always been one of
my heroes and I think he would have been so interesting to
talk to and get to know.

re Dana, what makes *me* feel old is having people younger than
*myself* refer to themselves as middleaged!  Give me a break!
You aren't even 40 yet! How can you be middleaged?  I'm 41 and
*I'm* not middleaged!  I was 14 when the Beatles first became
famous and,yes, it was very exciting - (they were more different
from any singers I had ever seen before than anybody else has
ever been, if that makes any sense.)

Lorna

    re .21 Sorry, Lorna. However, I've never thought of you as
    'middle-aged'. (Maybe I'm just jealous of people who've never gone
    through metabolic downshift :-) )
    
    Dana (who'd also like to tip a few with Henry David)

    

    either london or new york during the late seventies and early
    eighties..... or both....  try to meet johnny rotten, sid, ian
    curtis, ian mac, robert smith, morrissey when they were all just
    starting out.......
    
    and maybe throw a brick through a window while i was at it.
    

    Non_gender_specific_small_child!  I guess I'm lucky.  All *I* have
    to do is be in a play to visit all these other places.
    
    Though, I gotta tell ya, the gowns of the late 1700s, early 1800s are
    *not* all they are cracked up to be!
    
    E Grace

    Guess I'm not really in for "another time, another place". I feel about
    my current one as "it ain't beautiful, but it's home". 
    
    Then again, to be 16 and know what I know now!! :-)
    
    Ad

    I want to go back to the beginning of time. I mean *the* beginning.
    Day 1, minute 1, second 1. Write down what I see. Answer all the
    questions, dispute all of the myths and legends. Of course people
    would continue to believe what they want to, but at least I would
    know what happened.
    
    Dee (who is failing Philosophy 1, and probably for a very good reason.)

    Coincidence; the instructor of Amer. Lit. asked that.  He seemed
    disappointed that I chose to go forward.  The past appeals to me,
    romantic that I am, but I think it is the *imagined* past.  A fan of
    flush toilets and easy access to books (from the ridiculous to the
    sublime) such as I would probably find the advantages outweighed
    considerably by the drawbacks.
    
    The future!  More books!  Masterpieces, as yet unwritten!  Good that my
    predilections lie in that direction, since that's the direction in
    which I'm living...
    
    aq
    

    re: .27
    
    "The future is unwritten, the heroes unknown"
    
    don't know who said it, but saw it on a Clash album cover....
    

    A crew member of the Starship Enterprise:The Next Generation
    
    A member of the Iroquis Nation during the time of the settlement of the
    USA
    
    A male, to see what it was like...no particular time or place
    
    
    Regards, Judy
    

    re .29 See .4

    I think I'd move into the future world I've created for my novels.
    
    --bonnie