On 5/29/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/29/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Pepys used to be just this guy from
the seventeenth century,
False his involvement in sorting out the English navy would have been
enough to make him firmly notable and there would be the position of
MP as a fall back.
Absolutely. I'm not seeing he wasn't as "notable" as any other
prominent restoration politician. Funnily enough, I can't name any
others.
No what I was saying (and I thought it was pretty obvious) is that
this whole "notability fixed" thing is trivially false. Pepys is the
counter-example: a fellow more known now for something that most
eigheenth century scholars were unaware of, or which they thought
(believing the diaries to be in a private code) would be forever
inaccessible.