Et in arcadia ego.

[zotz]

A few months ago there was a news article about some ex-Bletchley park people considering a mysterious inscription on a monument in Staffordshire, reputedly containing information about the Holy Grail. Well, they don't think so. This is entirely unsurprising. The Holy Blood And The Wholly Specious has a lot to answer for, even if it has managed to indirectly pay for the Roslin Chapel's restoration.

There's a page about the Poussin in question here.

Rather more practically, here's an article about a possible treatment for rabies, previously 100% fatal once it became symptomatic (bar one single person in the sixties, I believe).

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you noticed but the Poussin page you ref is actually part of a site about the rather excellent Tom Stoppard play "In Arcadia" (which I've read but disappointingly never seen acted). Interesting site in fact, and after a little clicking about I found:

http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/lsi/arcadia/glossary.html

Click on the last link there and you get a "Congratulations! You found the target page. " thingy (which is disappointingly broken). The idea of burying an easter egg in a web site about "In Arcadia" greatly appeals to me.

[zotz]

I hadn't noticed any of that, actually. Thanks. Not bad at all.