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A Fistful of Warlocks (SPOILERS: FISTFUL OF WARLOCKS)
Quantus:
Sooo...what were we talking about?
Aminar:
--- Quote from: Quantus on July 18, 2017, 12:32:13 PM ---Sooo...what were we talking about?
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Wyatt Earp's historical persona, Legend Vs Fact.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Aminar on July 18, 2017, 02:02:06 PM ---Wyatt Earp's historical persona, Legend Vs Fact.
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And more in general:
Humans making myths about historical persons
The differences between their real and mythical personality
Humans believing the myth, the power of myth in real life
What is true in the dresdenverse, the myth or the real version
Quantus:
Ah, good. Those are far better topics, safely clear of Godwin's Law :P
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 17, 2017, 09:30:41 AM ---http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1038453/The-French-Fuhrer-Genocidal-Napoleon-barbaric-Hitler-historian-claims.html
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The author of that needs to do a better job on his history. He combines wartime deaths, rebellions, and a number of other things to produce a sensationalist (and mostly invalid) comparison.
Which is itself typical of the back-and-forth. It's somewhat traditional for historical views of large figures to go back and forth from "he was a hero" to "he was a villain" and back again as fashions change. The truth always remains stubbornly inconvenient, because it rarely fits into a given era's preferences. Oliver Cromwell, Columbus, Shaka Zula, Abraham Lincoln, you name the figure.
Yes, even Lincoln. For ex, was Lincoln trying to avoid war when he had Anderson fortify the island in Charleston Harbor...or was he intentionally dangling bait to goad the Confederates into firing first? Depends on who you ask. We can't find out because the Council would get all sword-happy if we traveled back to 1860 and read Lincoln's mind.
Ditto Earp. How much of his legend is legend, how much is real, and how much of what we think is the reality is actually legend? Impossible to say with certainty.
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