SC - Xanth Books

[Sue Clemenger]

Hah! I know that one....I think....uh-oh....it just went
away....Stephen, I think? If I'm wrong, I plead a really long day,
topped by four and a half hours cooking fry bread in 90+ degree heat at
our local county fair....
- --Maire, too pooped to trudge for the rock

Jenne Heise wrote:
> 
> >(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"
> 
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