User talk:Johanus

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Multimedia
Hi, Johannus, hmmmmm to you too! :-). I appreciate your edit summary comment on User:Bishonen/Dorset Garden Spectacular, it made me realize I may need to rethink, or maybe reference, my use of the term "multimedia". I kind of like the word, although I do see your point about anachronism. My main sources, Hume and Milhous (see References section) use it a lot. They're very scholarly writers, but I suspect they think a little anachronism adds spice. Anyway, uh, I don't quite know how to put this. I don't mean to complain, especially if you're not so used to the place yet, and the different "namespaces" implied by page names. But did you notice that wasn't an actual article you edited? It's a subpage of mine, in my userspace. In other words, it's my draft. I haven't decided when/whether to move it to the article namespace yet. Or what to call it if I do, for that matter—it's quite tricky. Do you have any thoughts about it? I was thinking maybe Restoration spectacular. Best wishes, Bishonen | talk 00:47, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

And spectaculars..
Hi, that's a very good point you make about how the context in the sources has formed my sense of the term, I'm sure you're right. The thing is, though, I'm getting a little worried about finding any term whatever, for either the title or the text, that anybody will even understand—User: El C just asked on the talk page what "a spectacular" is..! :-( I quite like the quaintness of "machine play", but for sure nobody will know what that is; I didn't know it myself ten days ago. The trouble is these baroque babies are really little-known. Judith Milhous calls them "the once-celebrated machine plays"—cute, I thought—and asks rhetorically who has heard of them today. Well, no, quite. Thanks for the compliment! The article is sort of headed for WP:FAC—you might want to take a look at that page if you don't know it, you would enjoy it, I think. Bishonen | talk 19:01, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Tediously? :-) Weell, personally, I believe you, I don't think I could ever have sat through all the gold enrichments and glorious machines. (It's actually the legit drama that I like—Restoration comedy is my baby article, not so much this light piece.) It still does sound a little tautological to me to speak of innovative scenery making landfall in England for the first time, though. Innovatively is often used synonymously with creatively, I know, maybe even usually, but to me it still has the implication of newness also. Anyway, I've put some other phrase altogether now, please see what you think and change it if you like. The article is live, renamed (old link will still work), and on WP:FAC! Best, Bishonen | talk 03:56, 31 July 2005 (UTC)