ripperology needs this guy

[lynn cates]

Hello All. Does any of this sound familiar to Ripperology?

(The clipping is from Lloyd's April 22, 1888.)

Cheers.
LC

[Phil H]

Ignatius Donnelly was quite a character. Worth looking up on Wikipedia.

Atlantis was his other big money spinner.

He was enormously influential for a long time.

Who wrote Shakespeare is, of course, as big a query as who was JtR! While i can see the issues with the latter, I have never been able to fathom why anyone would think that Stratford Will didn't pen his plays.

But then, as with JtR maybe the answers lie more with the questioner and his needs than in the history??

Phil

[lynn cates]

Will

Hello Phil. Right. It used to be alleged that Shakespeare was not educated enough to write his plays.

I think knowing human nature is the main element here. Will did that.

Cheers.
LC

[Dave O]

If you're interested in the history and evolution of the Shakespeare authorship debate, I thought James Shapiro's recent book Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? was enjoyable.

Dave

[claire]

He'd be more than welcome here, Lynn, methinks...as long as, when challenged on the genesis of the numbers, he was able to get quite hostile and demand that his interlocutors prove that they did not pertain

[protohistorian]

Indeed Claire, or whine like a child without his juice box. Dave

[Scott Nelson]

Atlantis, the Antediluvian World, & Ragnok, the Age of Fire and Gravel.

All Fortean crap.

Apologies to Mike Covell.

[lynn cates]

assertions

Hello Claire and Dave. Not to mention a reply, when challenged, along the lines of, "Look, these numbers are correct. And if you weren't such an idiot, you'd know that."

Cheers.
LC

[belinda]

I would love to have been at that lecture.

[claire]

oh, and, of course: 'if you don't like it, you don't have to discuss it.' (Or, variation on a theme: 'well then, I'll get me coat and you will no longer be the beneficiaries of my superior insights.')

Tee hee

[lynn cates]

then you'll be sorry

Hello Claire. Right. Because I will SOLVE Shakespeare before you do. Then you'll be sorry.

Cheers.
LC