Doing nothin'

I've accomplished little the past couple of days because I've been reading the latest Louise Penny book- "The Nature of the Beast".  I just couldn't put it down!  Loren and I talked about her books, when we were out to dinner, and he said that he thought they stretched the limits of credibility.  How many murders can occur in a small village in Gaspe?  I guess I feel that any fiction causes you to stretch your limits to a certain extent. This book certainly did, as the basic premise was that a huge gun, capable of firing missiles into orbit, was hidden for years in the woods of Gaspe.  However, when I got to the end there was an authors note stating that this premise was actually, at least partially, based on real persons and events.

Anyway, I titillated the interest of the local librarian today by asking for information or images of the "Whore of Babylon", which was, pretty well, the focal symbol in the book.  He told me that we would probably have to search the system for "Babylon", and work from there. Then he promptly went to his computer and googled Images of the "Whore of Babylon", and up they popped. Very interesting and something I'll be able to follow up on.

I'm also doing research on "The Green Man"  Many years ago, shortly after we moved to Winnipeg, the Embroiderers' Guild brought in a teacher from England, who had done some work with the symbol, but really couldn't tell us much about it.  Some of the reading I've done lately indicates that this is probably true, as no source seems to be able to pin down the origins or symbolism associated with the image.  I had asked the same librarian about it, a few days ago, and he hadn't been able to find any of the books or articles I had on my list, in the system. As I left he says " It's always interesting talking to you".  I guess they don't get a lot of weird requests.