Calling all history buffs.....

[crydun]

This book will have a tickling scene in it, yes?

I have photos I took of the Berlin Wall in the 80s when it was still up and had spray paint all over it if that will add anything to the story as far as detail... I could scan them if I can get my dang scanner to work. (check out my thread about THAT....)

An interesting aside, not really historical in the sense of the wall coming up or going down, but as a point of adding some color or flavor to flesh out the novel, on the West's side of the wall were all sorts of small souveneir stands where you could purchase postcards of the wall being built and really artistic spray painted graffitti; B&W posters of famous photos featuring East Germans - including a guard - jumping over to the West before the wall went up, and so on. In West Germany, due to the wall, a small market was thus created of "Die Mauer muss weg!" related items, both celebrating (and reveling in) economic freedom while symbolically thumbing the nose at the repressive East.


Moses, well done. I was gonna ask about Martians. You win.

I've read that Churchill and Stalin were gay. Very.

I'd love to have those pics of the wall when you get your scanner working OJ. Thanks. Yes, there will be tickling scenes in this novel. They will occur naturally as all my scenes do. Esther and Phillip, the two main characters, are b/f g/f. Also, each has siblings. So, even though it won't be the focal point of the novel, tickling will definately be part of Esther and Phillip's language.😀 😉

 

[crydun]

Re: The Wall..

Was erected at night, completed on a Sunday Morning, August 12/13 in 1961 and was not a direct result of WW2. It was a result of the East German Governments fear they were losing too much of their technical population base to the West. It was hot (84F unseasonable warm for that date in Berlin), humid and overcast, without preciptiation. note it was NOT built for political reasons per se, it was built to prevent a drain on resources.

The wall officially opened November 9, 1989. Weather was somewhat cold (41 F), a dark, overcast day, without precipitation. This was the first day East Germany allowed an open Berlin border with West Germany. It was also the first symbolic removal of pieces by citizens of Germany

Actual tearing down was June 13th, 1990. From what I can find it was warm, and rather sunny. Almost like a typcial spring day in the US. The actual "completion" of the tearing down was October 3rd, 1990, although some work went on till late November.

I hope this helped!

Tron

Thanks Tron! Yes, that did help. That's where I am in writing the novel. I'm putting the wall's erection in the beginning of the book as the point is for esther and Phillip to keep their love alive until it comes down. Thanks for the info!!!

 

[Oddjob0226]

I'd love to have those pics of the wall when you get your scanner working OJ. Thanks. Yes, there will be tickling scenes in this novel. They will occur naturally as all my scenes do. Esther and Phillip, the two main characters, are b/f g/f. Also, each has siblings. So, even though it won't be the focal point of the novel, tickling will definately be part of Esther and Phillip's language.😀 😉

Sounds good, Cry, baby! I'm trying to download a driver right now since my install CD is scratched and not working at all. I'll let you knwo what happens.

M

 

[Oddjob0226]

My scanner is working... let me go through some old books & stuff and get my material together.

 

[crydun]

ok OJ. Glad you think it sounds good.

 

[red indian]

Sorry...........

.......my input was not worthy of any recognition Crydun.

 

[crydun]

just so you know, an excerpt from Chapter one is now posted in the post stories section. Thought you'd like to know