tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post5974635860245661628..comments2024-03-25T12:31:58.169+00:00Comments on David Stimpson: The Village Has Been Going For A Very Long TimeDavid Stimpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-54897641212810873602014-07-09T13:05:38.496+01:002014-07-09T13:05:38.496+01:00I think chloroform is a bit of a non-starter too. ...I think chloroform is a bit of a non-starter too. From Wikipedia: "Use of chloroform as an incapacitating agent has become widely recognized, bordering on clichéd, due to the popularity of crime fiction authors having criminals use chloroform-soaked rags to render victims unconscious. However, it is nearly impossible to incapacitate someone using chloroform."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-34541947024630312252014-07-09T12:58:49.587+01:002014-07-09T12:58:49.587+01:00But it's not a flight of fancy, is it? It'...But it's not a flight of fancy, is it? It's a proposition that "The Village has been existence at least from the Victorian period", so support for such a theory has to be grounded in fact, which it unfortunately isn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-42208209001010344252014-07-05T10:28:08.864+01:002014-07-05T10:28:08.864+01:00As far as I can read, David's Victorian fantas...As far as I can read, David's Victorian fantasy about the abduction of the Prisoner is just that, a fantasy, a flight of fancy, a product of the imagination. In a fantasy anything can happen. Both logic and realism are thrown out with the baby and the bathwater!<br /> Fantasy would be in a very poor way if it always had to be historically and scientifically accurate. Where would the Prisoner be? I personally have never come across a true life Rover, with all its attributes as seen in 'the Prisoner' series. Of course maybe you just view it as merely a weather balloon. <br /> In the 2011 film 'The Three Musketeers' set in the 17th century, an airship is blown up. The first balloon flight made by the Montgolfier brothers had not taken place until 1783, let alone there being airships in the 17th century. Its a fantasy film.<br /><br />John DarkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-63511608460992635882014-07-04T09:32:57.759+01:002014-07-04T09:32:57.759+01:00The more one thinks about it, the more holes appea...The more one thinks about it, the more holes appear in your Victorian fantasy. At the abduction stage of the operation, there would have been no four horse-drawn hearse. A handcart, or bier cart, was the most common form of transport for a coffin, especially as someone as circumspect as The Prisoner would not have TWICE failed to notice the ostentatious hearse and four, festooned with black ostrich feathers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-21608068518190004152014-07-03T13:48:16.842+01:002014-07-03T13:48:16.842+01:00Hello Anonymous and Arno,
I wrote the above pie...Hello Anonymous and Arno,<br /> I wrote the above piece while I was listening to a piece of music, which has nothing whatsoever to do with 'the Prisoner.' Its just something that came into my mind at the time, I wasn't thinking about when nerve agent or gas had been first developed. I was using poetic license. Perhaps the Undertakers chloroformed the Prisoner, chloroform having been first used successfully in 1847.<br /> Okay my brief description is years away from 'the Prisoner' we know. But the Village had to start at some point, perhaps I took the point back too far. Nevertheless I like the idea.<br /><br />Very best wishes<br />David<br />BCNUDavid Stimpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-76962087749828369322014-07-03T12:59:29.807+01:002014-07-03T12:59:29.807+01:00The first nerve gas, poisonous gas, wasn't dev...The first nerve gas, poisonous gas, wasn't develeoped and used before WW 1. The non-lethal "laughing gas" was first used by dentists in the late 18th century. However, this wouldn't have knocked No. 6 out would it. So, what about ether, a handkerchief around his face... or just an ordinary club on his head? But your thoughts are nice, nonetheless, really. I can imagine the Village as a group of Victorian buildings, lit by gas light or candles. The Stone Boat would be there. And there would probably be "Rover", a Baskerville-type of dog, huge and dark-grey with glimmering eyes roaming the estate. The Observatory Tower with the camera obscura would certainly play a more important role than in our version of the Prisoner. - BCNU!nr6dehttp://www.nummer6-theprisoner.denoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-37382929637479067822014-07-03T12:14:03.606+01:002014-07-03T12:14:03.606+01:001886? 50 years later 1936 more likely if a nerve a...1886? 50 years later 1936 more likely if a nerve agent (discovered mid-1930s) was used. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com