I am in Love.
I realized recently that I left a woman out of my treatise on Chivalric Romance. I am dearly and deeply apologetic to have missed Eliza de la Zeur. Eliza is a fantastic example of the woman who is too good for her knight. The Countess of Sgyr is exactly “my type”: Brilliant. This woman could run circles around Leibniz if she cared to. She wasn’t merely book smart, either. She was one of the most cunning women I have ever met.
The only problem I can find with Eliza is that I have only met her in literature. Eliza is simply too good for a base and dull wretch as myself.
If you wish to meet her and to fall hopelessly and miserably in love, pick up Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, which begins with the novel Quicksilver.
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