Good company
July 27th, 2007 at 01:45pm cicada
Today I visited Darwin and Chaucer in Westminster Abbey. Newton was there too, but he was being all standoffish behind an iron railing (possibly to deter enthusiastic fans of The Da Vinci Code, but more likely for some liturgical reason).
Quick: what’s Charles Darwin’s middle name? That’s ok - I didn’t know either. (It’s Charles Robert Darwin).
For the record, the weather in London was lovely today. Tomorrow, though, probably not so much. But I’ll be in the British Museum, so it won’t matter. (happy noise)
P.S. At least a quarter of the people on the plane over here were reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In my side row, all three of us were reading it! Unfortunately the flight was much, much longer than the book.
Entry Filed under: Destinations, Department of the Drama
6 Comments Add your own
1. Keri | July 27th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Oh yay!! London!! Have fun!
2. rhett | July 28th, 2007 at 8:06 am
bah…what’s even worse is after you finish it you can’t chat with the other people about it because you can’t spoil it for the still other people that haven’t got to those parts yet.
Also I find it fitting that Newton is segregated. He was always a bit of a loner in life.
3. Haz | July 28th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
I’m having very severe museum jealousy. I’ll get to the London one’s someday!!
4. Wunx~ | July 28th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Have a great time in jolly old England!
5. D | July 29th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Newton would have been mighty happy about that fence. Too many hands near him would have freaked him right out. I’m a liitle surprised its not electrified.
6. cicada | July 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Yeah, Newton was fairly obnoxious. I wish they’d buried Leibnitz there too, just to get his goat!
My verdict on Newton and Mozart: yes, it is possible to be too intelligent.
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