Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Queen Mary Tiara worn by Meghan of Sussex.

http://people.com/royals/royal-wedding-meghan-markle-tiara/ It's because the British aristocracy practices entail, where eldest son gets everything--and Indian kings kept all in treasury, and had Golconda mines, from which through conquest of Nadir Shah,jewels like pink table diamond got to Persia/Iran. I still have not changed my mind about jewels to which the stink of lots of blood is attached, the miners', the kings' the women's. Enough. 5-23-2018

NYT review of Graves' collection Food for Centaurs.

https://www.nytimes.com/1960/05/29/archives/ambrosia-to-zealotry-food-for-centaurs-stories-talks-critical.html