Two quick notes

[hedda62]

New post up at my author page - Something Alarmingly Plausible, No Doubt: Writing the Past - about how I approach my version of historical fiction. I'm just going to do one more "update" post, tomorrow or the day after, and then leave the blog alone until I get back from Italy.

And OH WOW fantastic episode of POI last night, perfectly grim and poignant and intimate and funny and laying the foundation for who knows what. I loved it all, and all of them in it, but number one was Fusco's glee-face. Friendly acts of revenge: better than falafel.

Comments

[hedda62]

Thanks, and I figured somebody would delve deeper into the Tonypandy thing - it's very good as a general concept even if the truth doesn't quite map to what Tey thought it was.

[legionseagle]

It's akin to what oursin refers to as a factoid, and which I've heard of also as a "zombie fact" - things like the story about Queen Victoria not believing lesbians existed so never criminalising lesbianism, but I think what Tey calls Tonypandy is more establishment than that, somehow.

[legionseagle]

I've got what I meant by "establishment" now. Tonypandy applies not just to popular but mistaken historical facts ("factoids" or "zombie facts") but to the sub-set of such which have become part of a particular group's mythology, giving a level of identity-based investment in them.

[hedda62]

Yes. Which makes the original Richard III story (as in Shakespeare) full of Tonypandy elements as well. Not to mention the welfare mother with the Cadillac and a zillion other modern examples.

[legionseagle]

Macdonalds coffee!