On 5/29/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/29/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@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.