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Regular Non-Seasonal Steve Cartwright
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Lot of responsibility but I'm confident in what I said and I stand foursquare behind it

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Ada Palmer, who is a smart lady and knows what she's talking about, has gone into some detail about the difference between historicity and communicating with the audience. It's a great article I'd you've the time for a read www.exurbe.com/the-borgias-...

I recently had to costume some Vikings, and was lent a pair of extremely nice period Viking pants which had bold white and orange stripes about two inches wide.  I know enough to realize how perfect they were, and that both the expense of the dye and the purity of the white would mark them as the pants of an important man, but that if someone walked on stage in them the whole audience would think: “Why is that Viking wearing clown pants?”  Which do you want, to communicate with the audience, or to be accurate?  I choose A.
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