What IF

[Søren Krarup Olesen]

SIGVALD + SUK:

On Friday 23 May 2003 18:18, Someone U Know wrote:

> What if Don Rosa The duck Master wasn't An Engineer
> How his engineering Sense affected his Stories and His Art

Well, engineers (the worst of the kind ;-) have a sense for details 
which sometimes takes over and leave out time for imagination and 
fantasy.

Being an engineer myself, I am happy that most writers and artists are 
not. What a boring world it would be, if only those who know about 
Newton's 2nd etc. were writing stories.

When it comes to Disney comics, I find (if we must focus on education) 
stories coming from e.g. the social science community, or for that 
matter people we meet on the street, just about anybody not being 
engineers much more attractive and facinating, that IMHO silly 
engineering or mathematically based "factual" stories.

Perhaps, this is one of the reasons why I find LO$ so utterly boring. It 
was written and presented as historical facts, and indeed it works and 
is convincing. And then...after some time of consideration you realize 
that it is only pseudo history and turn back to the true imaginative 
stories like the Italian ones. Beware, I don't necessarily find Italian 
more funnier or more thoughtful (well...hmmm :-) than Rosa, but at 
least it's nice to feel and read those stories and silently conclude, 
that they are not all based on some extremely strict recipe. No fanatic 
true or false (just like in the real life).

Apparently you, Sigvald, fell for it. I can surely see why. Sorting 
historical events into categories is both entertaining and helpful if 
you wish to get an overview of a complex area--and Disney comics is 
certainly one such.

Sigvald, your idea and conception of "foreign" alphabets really scares 
me! Such opinions are extreme, so why not just admit it? It's okay, 
this is a free and open minded mailing list...

Søren
(who doesn't really care what language or alphabeth as long as we can 
get it into Inducks...well, that's for Stefan to figure out :-D