Ha!

[xenith]

Jumps on dead scene. Done. Done. (And it's not quite 12.30)


Discovered travelling menageries are quite a recent phenomenon, only 200 years or so ago. Menageries, of course, go back a bit further. So one wonders, why no one thought of it earlier? What factors prevented there development.

See, main characters says he saw a caged tiger in a travelling menagerie when he was a kid. So if he didn't, how did he see one? There might have been one attached to the palace, but that complicates things (what happened to it? if it's still there, it needs to be visited etc, and what sort of animals does it have etc).

It could be interesting to write in though

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[monissaw.livejournal.com]

Because things exist or don't for a reason, and that reason has to fit in with the world I'm trying to create

In this case, if the travelling mthings developed in the US in the early 19th C to cater to a dispersed population & mainly catered to "common folk", it doesn't make sense that the MC would have encountered one. At least without some convuluted reason.

However, if I look at the royal mthings that were common in Europe in earlier centuries, then it does make sense that there'd be one of them & that he was familiar with it.

So I have to decide which fits in better with my world, see :)

Or I could beat the MC up until he promises to stop comparing various other characters to wild cats.

Besides, isn't it interesting in its own right?

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of over-logging