by Old Goat 24 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
One of the authors of the soon to be published history of the watch tower's early years posted a small part of it in "rough draft." Take a look http://truthhistory.blogspot.com/
If you like their work (I think its superior, even in rough draft), give them some encouragement.
Where are the footnotes?
Is this guy still a Witness?
Is he going to look for a publisher or self-publish?
It looks good by the way. I enjoyed his book on Barbour very much: impressive detailed research, and writing flowed quite well, for such an arcane topic.
Marking. Thank you.
I don't know where the footnotes are. When they post on their private blog they always include them. I think they were lost in the formatting. She mentions formatting problems. Schulz is a very long-term Witness, apparently from the early 1950s. He teaches history and literature. Dr. de Vienne was never a Witness. As she expressed it somewhere, she raises children and goats and teaches gifted students. I think they intend to self-publish.
Raising children and goats, good lord! Together with an old-school dyed-in-the-wool JW? What bedfellows! I remember looking at her fiction, quite un-Witness like.
As I understand it, they are blood relations. I read and enjoyed her little novel. I wish she'd write another.
Maybe she cleans up his prose and offers advice on style.
It's somehow hard to believe that a non-Witness who writes such fiction could also sustain a serious interest in something as tedious as early Bible Student history. But maybe that's just my lack of imagination.
I've emailed her a few times. Her mom was a witness. Her master's thesis was on the witnesses. I haven't read it. I asked if she would share it and she ignored my request. Her personal blog can be funny, sometimes edgy.
I don't think Mr. Schulz needs much help with prose. On de Vienne's personal blog she said he'd been a newspaper editor back in the 1960s. I don't know for which paper. I worked with him ages ago at conventions. He was a newservice guy for a while. He had a very dry wit. We were both much, much younger then.
Interesting, thanks.
I wonder what his Witness friends make of his work. Probably largely a mixture of indifference and disdain, with a few select appeciative readers. Ironic that ex-Witnesses are likely to be his most receptive audience.
I don't know how they react. I keep a low profile on their private blog. I don't want to be kicked off. They do have a witness following, including a really articulate blog contributor. He goes by the name Jerome. Obviously a long-time witness.
