emo emo emo

[wondygal]

Today is sucky and full of stupid tears and I'm feeling emo. So I'm going to lock myself in my room and read my new copy of Good Omens, which I've been meaning to read for a while and finally picked up today. While I was at the bookstore, I also started reading Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, and, man, I love her prose

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[selenak]

His corpse didn't feel it. More importantly, the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, by which Clarendon negotiated Charles II.'s return, made sure that with a very few living exceptions plus four corpses, there would be no reprisals against Cromwell's followers after the Restoration. This was very useful for John Milton.

Tudors? We were talking about the Stuarts. Of the Tudors, I go:

Henry VII: a bastard, but a competent one. Still can't stand him. Am a Ricardian.
Henry VIII: if one has to be nice, one can say he did something for the navy and wrote some good songs. Plus English history would have been very different if he hadn't thrown a fit about his divorce, of course. But as someone fond of various people whose lives he ruined...
Edward VI: poor kid.
Mary: incompetent monarch, tragic figure as a woman. Meant well. Would probably have been adored as another country's queen, married to another country's king in her youth, happy doing charity work and founding nunneries. But as head of goverment in this country...
Elizabeth: wouldn't go as far as Evelyn, but she definitely was one of the most impressive rulers England ever had, and one of the most interesting to me.

[wondygal]

*facepalm* And heh. Many hees, in fact.

Mary is an interesting case, as you point out. And I was also just thinking of Evelyn, Mary and Elizabeth.