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<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="12"> <tr> <td><font color="#000000"> <p> </p> <h3>Why "in medias res"?</h3> <p><font color="#993300">"Gunilla Kinn – In medias res" </font>has been the name of my company since 1996. I took a course in creative writing at the School of Journalism at Stockholm University, and my professor used this classical expression for how I had initiated one particular story.<br /> <br /> At the same time, I started out as a self-employed freelancer. I wanted a classic name for my business, which would work everywhere and which was also kind of a motto or a journalistic statement. All of a sudden I saw a suitable name to register, scribbled down by the professor in the margin of my assignment article. It just stack with me.<br /> <br /> I also like that the Latin word "res" is imperative for "travel" in Swedish.<br /> <br /> <strong><img class="image-left" alt="UnionJack: Image" src="/users/GunillaKinn2867/images/GunillaKinn2867159353.jpg" />In medias res – in the midst of things</strong><br /> <em>latin</em>; in narrative technique, the recommended practice of beginning an epic or other fictional form by plunging into a crucial situation that is part of a related chain of events; the situation is an extension of previous events and will be developed in later action. The narrative then goes directly forward, and exposition of earlier events is supplied by flashbacks.</p> <div align="right"><em>Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, 2004</em></div> <p><br /> <strong><img class="image-left" alt="Svenskaflaggan: Image" src="/users/GunillaKinn2867/images/GunillaKinn2867159338.jpg" />In medias res – i händelsernas centrum</strong><br /> <em>latin</em>; midt i ämnet, midt in i förhållandena, utan inledning (i motsats mot ab ovo, se d.o). Uttrycket förekommer hos Horatius ("De arte poetica", v. 148) som prisar Homeros därför att han började sin Iliad midt i handlingen.</p> <div align="right"><em>Nordisk familjebok, 1910</em></div> <p> </p> <h3>My maps</h3> <p>I have always been extremely fascinated with maps, and love looking at all kinds of maps. The realities that the maps supposedly represent are of course, usually, even more fascinating – but maps are great for travel dreams and ditto memories.<br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.world66.com/community/mymaps/worldmap/BEFRBAHRDEYEHTHUZACHMKBRFIYUADISRUNLNOTRTPLUESPHCAVAGTJPCNEEVIEGALITCZARAUATINLBGLIEIDCUGHSYMAMLMNUSQAUKDKMYMXSEIL.gif"><br/><br /> <br /> These are the more than 50 countries that I have visited (states where I have only been at the airport don't count, of course). The darker red stands for countries where I have been residing for at least two months.<br /> <br /> <img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&chs=440x220&chtm=usa&chf=bg,s,336699&chco=d0d0d0,cc0000&chd=s:99999999999999999999999&chld=ARCACOCTFLGAILINLAMDMAMIMNNJNMNYNCOHPATXVAWVVT" width="440" height="220" ><br/>visited 23 states (46%)<br/><a href="http://douweosinga.com/projects/visited?region=usa">Create your own visited map of The United States</a> or try another <a href="http://douweosinga.com">Douwe</a> <a href="http://douweosinga.com/projects">Osinga</a> <a href="http://douweosinga.com/projects">project</a></p> <p><br /> American states I have been in (not just driven through). Well, as you can see, I still have a lot of places to discover in my second home country. Make your own US map <a href="http://douweosinga.com/projects/visitedstates">here</a> ...<br /> <br /> <br /> <img alt="" src="http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedEurope/countrymap?visited=ALANAUBEBHCRCZDKENESFIFRGEHUICIEITLUMANLNINORUSCSMSPSESWTUVC" /><br /> <br /> ...and a map of Europe <a href="http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedEurope">here</a>!<br /> <br /> This map is actually a little embarrassing to me, because my self-perception has always been that I had travelled a lot in Eastern Europe. Well, apparently – not really! I haven't even been in Poland. And I must be the only Swede who has never made it to Greece. Yet.<br /> <br /> More travels to come, I hope.</p></font></td> </tr> </table>
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