[NPPF] Canto Three: The Catholic stuff.. hyewhades

[David Morris]

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
>  >>>HUE is the correct word to use to refer to just the pure spectrum colors.
<<<
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> You just can't trust that VN is willing to use words 'correctly,' especially
when the word with which we started was 'Hugh.' And your confusion about
denotations and connotations is understandable, as even in ADA there arise the
pertinent questions, "whose hue?" and "Hue or who?" (p.9, Vintage pb)

Seems you are confusing my refusal to leave obvious error (hue = shade)
standing  with "my confusion."  I seriously doubt VN would be that sloppy with
his word play.  But you do seem to have found some interesting tidbits below:

DM

> St. Adelaide
> 
> Born 931; died 16 December, 999, one of the conspicuous characters in the
> struggle of Otto the great to obtain the imperial crown from the Roman
> Pontiffs. She was the daughter of Rudolph II, King of Burgundy, who was at
> war with Hugh of Provence for the crown of Italy. The rivals concluded a
> peace in 933, by which it was stipulated that Adelaide should marry Hugh's
> son Lothaire. The marriage took place, however, only fourteen years later;
> Adelaide's mother meantime married Hugh.
> 
> Oh my, the saint has married her step-brother. More sordid details of
> political intrigue and perhaps PF relevance can be found at
> http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01140c.htm
> 
> And while we're enjoying a Frigg's Day stretch, it is also curious that one
> of St. Adelaide's daughters (courtesy of her marriage to Otto following the
> death of her step-brother) is none other than Maud of Quedlinburg:
> http://www.geocities.com/mizzmelisende/woman51.html
> 
> It is also simply spine tingling that one of the patron saints of the *death
> of children* is St. Maud.
> http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintm29.htm
> 
> Now please excuse me, I must soak my sphincters.
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