"L. Timmel Duchamp - De Secretis Mulierum" - читать интересную книгу автора (Duchamp L Timmel)

L. TIMMEL DUCHAMP

DE SECRETIS MULIERUM

Those who resort to authority to win an argument privilege rote memory over
intelligent reasoning.

*
Leonardo da Vinci

ELENA:

Two months ago you e-mailed me a request for access to journal and diary
entries, notes, letters and any other documents that might shed new light on
the
first historical research projects to use the PSD and the disputes they
engendered. As an historian, I should be the last person to impede another's
research project. Consequently, my conscience began to prick me soon after I
refused you, and before I knew what I was about I found myself immersed in all
the pertinent personal documents in my possession and revisiting areas of my
memory I would have thought long gone. And so on those days when my health
permitted, I undertook to dictate a rough, colloquial account to my computer.
The enclosed is the result. I hope you find it useful (though as you will see
it
is sadly unpolished). I believe when you've read it you will understand why I
could not open my journals, notebooks and other computer files to you.

You have my permission to excerpt passages for direct quotation, but I must
ask
that you allow me to reread and correct such passages as I deem necessary. (I
shamelessly plead health problems as an excuse for the sloppiness of my
prose.)

I would like to take this opportunity to express my confidence in and pleasure
that such an astute and meticulous an historiographer as I know you to be has
taken on this project. Wishing you all good fortune for your project,

Jane Pendler

THE PSD WARS IN THE INTERNATIONALHISTORICAL ESTABLISHMENT:THE OPENING
SKIRMISHby
Jane L. Pendler

If countless numbers of people throughout history have wished for an early
menopause, probably no one wished more devoutly for it than Thomas Aquinas. No
doubt he literally prayed for it morning, noon, and night. A picture comes to
mind of him kneeling in his cell, pleading with the Virgin for release from a
burden even Job hadn't been forced to bear. Somehow, some way he managed to
preserve his secret in an era lacking any conception of privacy (or rights
thereof). Perhaps he considered that despite his having been born female God