What would Margaret Fell, William Penn, John Woolman, Lucretia Mott, Elias Hicks, Elizabeth Fry, Joel and Hannah Bean, Howard Brinton, Bayard Rustin have to say to each other?
Make your own educated guesses from your reading, viewing, and listening of past fictional and real individuals coming together to converse, act, and reflect.
Place all of the participating individuals in a particular place and time, a fictional or real setting.
Maybe, also have them talk with and interact with other actual famous individuals of history or the present time. For instance, Huck Finn (Mark Twain's novel), Wolf Larsen (Jack London's The Sea Wolf), and Captain Ahab (Melville's Moby Dick)
meet John Proctor (real individual of the Salen Trials) and Hester (Scarlet Letter).
Then they interact with Mayor Zohran Mamdani or President Trump or former President Biden, etc.
Playing around with time and space is a possible option, too. What if the European explorers didn't discover the Americas or the Reformation never occurred or Muhammad never existed
or the American Civil War didn't take place?
Or the current American political leaders show up in 1859...and meet Rhett Butler, Scarlet O'Hara (Mitchell's Gone with the Wind) and interact with Lucretia Mott and Martin Luther King Jr.?
The possibilities in this imaginative literary lounge are limitless:_).
In the Light,
Daniel Wilcox
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