Comments on: The Enchanted Forest http://www.dopealope.com/blog/2006/musings/the-enchanted-forest/ An ill-fated attempt at figuring out an order to things, destined to devolve into minutia, obfuscations, and blustering pomposity. Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ellen Fields http://www.dopealope.com/blog/2006/musings/the-enchanted-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Ellen Fields Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:52:52 +0000 http://www.dopealope.com/blog/2006/musings/the-enchanted-forest/#comment-14 How fun! I would have loved that place, especially the cave with Ali Baba and his thieves. Reading THAT reminded me of the feeling I used to get reading those stories... the Middle East (with names like Persia, Damascus, Baghdad!) seemed so very far away and so mysterious, adventurous, beautiful and exciting. Hmmmm... 1001 nights. Silk and gold and jewels and beautiful ladies with veils and bells and earrings and the scent of jasmine and incense and the taste of honey and dates. My imagination as a child was so intense. Now I have to work just to see a glimpse of what was daily life inside my mind then. And now names like Baghdad and Persia conjure up such sad and angry feelings. But the gold and silk and incense is still lurking somewhere down deep... How fun! I would have loved that place, especially the cave with Ali Baba and his thieves.

Reading THAT reminded me of the feeling I used to get reading those stories… the Middle East (with names like Persia, Damascus, Baghdad!) seemed so very far away and so mysterious, adventurous, beautiful and exciting. Hmmmm… 1001 nights. Silk and gold and jewels and beautiful ladies with veils and bells and earrings and the scent of jasmine and incense and the taste of honey and dates.

My imagination as a child was so intense. Now I have to work just to see a glimpse of what was daily life inside my mind then. And now names like Baghdad and Persia conjure up such sad and angry feelings.

But the gold and silk and incense is still lurking somewhere down deep…

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