Rose the Graced not Rose the Chaste

Dave Lebling · 24 Jun 2008, 00:35 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: dlebling at hyraxes.com (Dave Lebling)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:35:50 -0400
Subject: (urth) Rose the Graced not Rose the Chaste
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It is just as well that the maze was not the Hampton Court maze, as that 
one is easy enough to solve even if you aren't armed and dangerous. My 
wife and I did it fairly quickly in 1988, although it appears from the 
link that it may have been modified since then.

Were I to conceal a concubine in a maze, I'd pick a more complex one.

-- Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha

Mo Holkar / UKG wrote:
> At 06:59 23/06/2008, you wrote:
>> > This story is referenced in "A Solar Labyrinth": "The Fayre 
>> Rosamund dropped
>> > her embroidery with her needle thrust through it, but forgot the 
>> yarn in her
>> > pocket, thus furnishing Queen Eleanor's knights with the clue they 
>> required
>> > to solve Hampton Court Maze."
>>
>> I will merely comment that the Hampton Court Maze was created at the 
>> end of the 17th century.
>
>
> Indeed -- the maze that concealed Rosamund was supposedly at 
> Woodstock. Whether this is more likely to be the narrator of A Solar 
> Labyrinth subtly misleading us, or Wolfe making a mistake, who can say.
>
> best,
>
> Mo
>
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