SC - Xanth Books

[Jenne Heise]

>(who finds that historical great persons seldom if ever adhere to the 
> 'niceties' of their current culture. Queen Elizabeth (my heroine) and 
> Alexander the Great (my idol), Thomas Jefferson (my hero) and General Patten 
> (my father figure) immediately come to mind).

Well, it's true that most people we often admire would have been hell to
live with; I adore Eleanor of Acquitane but I wouldn't have wanted to work
for her! Hildegarde of Bingen must have been a trial to her convent, and
one 16th century botanist/herbalist who was a churchman was the despair of
his bishop, who he attacked on a regular basis. I admire William the
Marshal but he would have been very stuffy; Elizabeth of Hungary was by
all accounts a virago; St Elizabeth of Hungary turned her back on her own
children and husband...

Ob. cookery reference: who was it, in the succession of England after
William the Bastard and before Matilda-Empress, who died of a surfeit of
lampreys (or choked on a plate of eels?)

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.

"They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the 
	nuts work loose. 
They do not preach that His Pity allows them to drop their job when 
	they damn-well choose. " -Kipling, "The Sons of Martha"