Why did no one tell me that Foucault's Pendulum name-checks the Abbé d'Herblay?He sneers. "We met in other times, when you tried to pull me away from the deathbed of Postel, when under the name Abbé d'Herblay I led you to end one of your incarnations in the heart of the Bastille."
Coming as the reference did on page 502, I was exhilarated but not ( Read more... )

From shadowkat67, a meme.

1. Name 10 favorite actors you'd see in anything:

• Cary Grant ( 9 more )

I don't usually gakk stuff -- but then, when you come right down to it, I don't usually post -- but this bit of ponygirl2000's is too good to pass up. Though I tend to denigrate the conspiratorial mindset, I have to admit that the possibilities of historical figures having met under strange circumstances sends my mind to some interesting spaces. The fact that ( Read more... )