by Red Wolf"Are you sure we can't be seen?" Rose looked across what should have been rolling hills of grassland. Instead, there was a churned landscape of mud, littered with bodies and the detritus of war. The wind swung around, bringing with it the smell of blood and death, and the groans of the dying.
Rose shivered and the Doctor took her hand. "It's a simulacra of the futility of war. The people wanted to remind their descendents of the price paid in blood. To make them find another way."
"Did they learn?" Rose looked up at the Doctor.
"They never do."
Doctor Who 100 — challenge #79: peace
Published Babble Horde — 03.08.2005
Published Doctor Who 100 — 03.08.2005
Published A Teaspoon and an Open Mind — 06.08.2005
Published fanfiction.net — 06.08.2005
doctor who | fan fiction | fiction | ninth doctor | rose tyler
People do seem to be incredibly stupid over not learning from the past — via LiveJournal
— posted by Red Wolf at 14.08.2005 16:11 AEST | 
I started off heading in a completely different direction too. You just never know with muses — via LiveJournal
— posted by Red Wolf at 14.08.2005 16:13 AEST |
Too true :) Highly successful, whatever direction it started in ... — via LiveJournal
— posted by whochick at 14.08.2005 16:13 AEST |
If only it wasn't. But people are teh stupid — via LiveJournal
— posted by Red Wolf at 14.08.2005 16:15 AEST |
No, we don't, do we? But maybe someday...
(Um, shouldn't that be a simulacra of the futility of war?) — via LiveJournal — posted by Elizabeth Culmer at 14.08.2005 16:21 AEST |
(Um, shouldn't that be a simulacra of the futility of war?) — via LiveJournal — posted by Elizabeth Culmer at 14.08.2005 16:21 AEST |
I have less faith in humans to get things right en masse. Mostly, they're too busy being led around by the nose by whoever has the biggest stick.
Thanks for the typo catch — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 14.08.2005 16:22 AEST |
Thanks for the typo catch — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 14.08.2005 16:22 AEST |
How sad it is that this is so unfortunately true. We never learn. And this captures it really well — via LiveJournal
— posted by Pixie at 15.08.2005 14:44 AEST |
Fantastic. And hugely sad because its so true. Well done — via A Teaspoon and an Open Mind
— posted by anyanka at 15.08.2005 14:53 AEST |
I kind of like that idea, of having what amounts to a real battlefield, complete with gore, smells and screams, to send our schoolchildren through. Sadly, though, I'm forced to conclude it wouldn't make any difference to the dictators and madmen who start wars in the first place — via fanfiction.net
— posted by Mark at 15.08.2005 15:28 AEST |
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