Reenactment Prep

[backupmemories]

Unfortunately, this is going to be most of what I've been thinking about/talking about for the last week or so - reenactment prep. School is over (I got an A in each class, with one teacher sending me a note saying "If the college permitted A+s, you would get one!", but that was probably because I scored a 101 on the final where the class average was 66...), and costume preparations have gone full steam ahead.

...well, sort of. Not being much of a seamstress myself, I've managed to perfect the art of delegating. I invited some people over to help me sew some costumes, and somehow the two of them have been sent back with homework to finish making 6 frock coats for me. Indeed, volunteered to do so, and have promised to finish them over the weekend. Mwahahaha. I love being a manager. Particularly of perfectionists who feel better doing it all themselves. ^^

I still have some more work to do, obviously - (waistcoat work is still mine, alas, but luckily I still have one more person who volunteered to help me out...) - but things are progressing nicely.

We're still working on getting a permit for the actual event - having weaponry in Central Park without one is probably not the smartest idea in the world, and we do have a fake pistol which will probably find itself used in various scenes. *shrugs* Well, if we can't get them to give it to us in Central Park, we'll do it in Washington Square, where our school is centered - and where they're so used to film students that you could probably walk in there with a small fully equipped army and they wouldn't bat an eyelash as long as you were also holding a camera and looked vaguely Tisch-like.

...aaaand that's life as it currently stands, I suppose. ^^

Comments

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad everything is coming along so well. Do you know yet whether it's going to be the 13th or the 14th?

By the way, have a Danton speech (he gives rather short ones, relatively speaking, as you'll see):

DANTON
On the patrie in danger
2 September 1792

"It is satisfying for the ministers of the free people to be able to announce to you that the patrie is going to be saved. Everything riots, quivers, burns to fight.
You know that Verdun is not yet in the power of our enemies. You know that the garrison has promised to immolate the first who proposes to surrender.
One part of the people is going to go to the frontiers, another is going to dig entrenchments, and the third will defend the interior of our cities with pikes. Paris is going to second these great efforts. The commissaries of the Commune are going to solemnly proclaim the invitation to citizens to arm themselves and march for the defense of the patrie. It is at this moment, messieurs, that you can declare that the capital is deserving of the praise of all France. It is at this moment that the National Assembly is going to become a real war committee. We ask that you race with us to direct the sublime movement of the people by naming commissaries who will second us in these great measures. We ask that whoever refuses to serve with his person or to hand in his arms will be punished with death.
We ask that instructions be given to citizens to direct their movements. We ask that couriers be sent to all the departments to inform them of the decrees you will have rendered. The tocsin which is going to sound is not a signal of alarm; it’s the charge on the enemies of the patrie. To vanquish them, we need audacity, more audacity, always audacity, and France will be saved."

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Also, what's next priority for translation, as far as you're concerned? Do you have something specific? You said something about Vergniaud... Did you want a particular speech of his, or will any do?

[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

Any will do. Preferably, it would be relatively short, of course. ^^

Priority...hmm. Let me check with the other person who is working on this; I'll get back to you soon. ^^

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Hm, Vergniaud's not known for giving particularly short speeches... In the meantime, are there any other characters you know we're going to have that you want me to translate something for?

[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Well, would it be possible for you to find/translate Louvet's Accusation of Robespierre and Robespierre's reply to it? That's the next major thing we're attempting to get. ^^

Thank you a lot, by the way; I got the Report on the Dantonists and it's perfect. ^___^

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I take it you haven't been able to find Robespierre's half of that exchange yet? I'll translate Louvet's part first, because it's very possible that a translation of Robespierre's reply has already been published.

You're very welcome. :D

[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

Yes, the 14th. We're getting details on locations as we speak.

Oh, thank you! ^_^

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Lovely. ^_^

By the way, did you get the Report Against the Dantonistes I sent you?