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Especially to historians--but in fact to everyone--this must be one of the most hysterically funny lampoons ever written of over-eager romantic interpretations of the past--as funny as Robert Nathan's "Digging the Weans." In MOTEL, Macaulay, the writer-illustrator-historian of techology who gave us CASTLE and CATHEDRAL (right up my winding Medieval lane!), drew a picture of a lady who strangely resembles Heinrich Schliemann's wife, Sophia, but instead of wearing the purported "treasure of Priam" around her neck she wears a ritual toilet seat. And there are many more important discoveries of ritual & romance discovered by Howard--(hmm; coincidental name, eh?--, excavator of the Toot 'n' C'mon Motel. You'd need to be dead not to love this one!
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Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay
medieval_student, July 20, 2006
Especially to historians--but in fact to everyone--this must be one of the most hysterically funny lampoons ever written of over-eager romantic interpretations of the past--as funny as Robert Nathan's "Digging the Weans." In MOTEL, Macaulay, the writer-illustrator-historian of techology who gave us CASTLE and CATHEDRAL (right up my winding Medieval lane!), drew a picture of a lady who strangely resembles Heinrich Schliemann's wife, Sophia, but instead of wearing the purported "treasure of Priam" around her neck she wears a ritual toilet seat. And there are many more important discoveries of ritual & romance discovered by Howard--(hmm; coincidental name, eh?--, excavator of the Toot 'n' C'mon Motel. You'd need to be dead not to love this one!(11 of 16 readers found this comment helpful)