Posted on 03/30/2020 7:41:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
PinGGG!..........................
From wikipedia
“Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. They have written . . .”
Note the horrific error?
Wikipedia got the “They” correct in the second part, but missed with the singular “is” in the first part. Should be “are”.
Lawsuit!!!!!!
Does it speaketh using the ‘Royal “We”’?.............
Plague is a hard cheese time.
Too many editions of books called “Diary of Samuel Pepys” on Amazon. I finally picked a Kindle edition The Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Complete Edition [Annotated] for $1.99. I would like to find a book about Pepys, but I’ll look tonight.
Well of course that wasn’t a plague event back then. The camembert was after all a bit runny. :)
I did read some of “Peep’s” works many, many years ago. Kind of fun reads. He reminded me somewhat of Oscar Wilde; though Wilde, of course, came on the scene a couple hundred years later.
Sorry, Karl, I’ll post the author and publisher in a few minutes when I find my copy.
“When a plague hit England during the summer of 1665, it was a time of tremendous political turmoil. The nation was deep into the Second Anglo-Dutch War, a nasty naval conflict that had torpedoed the British economy. But there were deeper sources of internal political conflict. Just five years earlier in 1660, King Charles II had wrested back control of the government from the Puritan members of Parliament led by Oliver Cromwell.
Though Cromwell had died in 1658, the king had him exhumed, his corpse put in chains and tried for treason. After the inevitable guilty verdict, the King’s henchmen mounted Cromwell’s severed head on a 20-foot spike over Westminster Hall, along with the heads of two co-conspirators. Cromwell’s rotting head stayed there, gazing at London, throughout the plague and for many years after.”
And we think our political divide is bad now!
It’s nice to have a historical perspective on things.
There are more than a few in Washington who deserve to have their heads similarly displayed for their treasonous acts against the nation.
“Pepys was a believer in science, and he tried to follow the most cutting-edge advice from his doctor friends. This included smoking tobacco as a precautionary measure, because smoke and fire would purify the “bad air.” In June of 1665, as the plague began, Pepys described seeing red crosses on doors for the first time. “It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell,” he writes, “so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and chaw, which took away the apprehension.””
It’s amusing reading about what was “settled science” back then... and makes you wonder about our settled science today.
Used to ‘settled science’ that atoms were made up of electrons, protons and neutrons, and that was it.................
Samuel Pepys diary is like reading through someone’s posting history on here.
You do need to get inside the mind of an English 17th century Middle-class Gent to get the full benefit.
Enjoy.
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