look, a flying nun ~ !

[lookingland]

a few posts back i wrote about all the "stuff" i have laying around. along with all that stuff, i fergit about half of the resources i have stashed around, like the fascimile copies of Harper's Weekly from 1861-1863 that i bought when i was rich and had nothing better to do with my money. then i remember that they are there, flip a few pages and "poof" there's what i was looking for (which, if i recall correctly, was why i bought the silly things in the first place ~ for picture references).

anyway, much as i doubt the particular sisters of charity in corinth from new orleans wore cornettes, i'm putting my nuns in them (they're my nuns after all). right now my only real consideration is that we only see the nuns very very briefly in this story, which makes me wonder if i shouldn't save them for a larger role somewhere else. i s'pose i could recycle them later if need be, but i'm trying to make sensible choices all things considered.



from the September 13, 1862 issue of
Harper's Weekly

and evidently i don't have anything else to say.

: o p

Comments

[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad you've chosen to use the cornettes!

But, might I recommend that you don't write in any stiff winds when your nuns are outside?

(Is there a reason that nuns wore that particular style?)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

it's very mary poppins, isn't it?

~ hahahahahaha

i have no idea why the style (except that it's traditional from medieval times when peeps wore hats like that). i can think of no "practical" reason aside from identification.

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[markredmond.livejournal.com]

Speaking of nuns in a larger role, I watched Lilies of the Field the other day. I have seen it several times, and it gets better with each viewing.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

oooo ~ that's a great movie! haven't seen it in a while. i should try to find a copy.

: D