biographies

[maxellute]

Recently I've been working my way through the biography section at the New Jersey Historical Society. I love those over-the-top Victorian titles: "America's First Liberal" (Tom Paine) or "The Greatest Woman in America" (Lucretia Mott). Then there's the ironic name for your job category, as in the story of a medical doctor named ill. (I had to put

Comments

The perils of reading carelessly

[brigadoondays]

Talk about double-takes. I couldn't figure out the "kinky sex" reference until I re-read your top choice, and realized you had written "flagellant," and not "flatulant"!!!

[miriamjoyce]

Those are great!