> Still it occasionally yields some fruit.  I'll pose the following question.
> I recently posted a new poem in the style of a Shakesperean sonnet.
> Nothing in the poem was modern, except that I wrote it.  Was it "aping a
> dead tradition?"  If not, does it not demonstrate the possibility of
> creating new, dynamic, original work in a period format?

Sure, that's creativity. But what's going on when most people bring up
the "creativity thing" is that they've created something which has
features which are clearly not from the middle ages, but what to
justify doing it in an SCA context. So they say, "But we're the
society for CREATIVE anachronism!"

You're right, you can ape a dead tradition in a very dynamic,
original, creative way.

Gregory Blount


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