Re:If you could ‘Leap’ for a day, who would you be?
[quote]Why only 50 years? That’s no fun.[/quote]
No, if we’re going by the Q-leap serial, I can make a corection here. The actual original idea was that one could not leap beyond one’s life-time, iow, before one’s birth. But later, Dr. Samuel Beckett DID leap back before his own birth, at least twice, into characters which were related to his genetic heredity.
So, the idea is, one can leap back before one’s birth and the time would be unlimited, as long as there was some genetic connection. This opens up all kinds of possibilities, because if one goes back far enough, almost everyone has genetic connections that have been lost to the memory.
One example, in the case of US citizens, would be that if anyone was to go back to the 17th century, they might even be able to incarnate a member of the Cherokee Nation, because the records tell us that before European politics began dictating militant imperialism in North America, there was quite a lot of inter-marraige between European settlers and Cherokees (who were considered the most civilized Amerindians of that time). After Euro-imperial politics began turning settlers against the Amerindians, the resulting confusion alienated most of those families that were intermixed and much of the records were lost.
It was recently estimated that a majority of North Americans whose ancestry precedes the American revolution have about 5 percent Cherokee blood due to almost 2 centuries of peaceful integration, and most of them don’t even know it becuz the bloodlines were suppressed.
uh-oh, it’s doing it again. It won’t let me preview….and it’s losing my post… error in postinmg… friggin dang it all.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!