On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 Talpianna at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 11/18/2003 1:26:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time, > philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU writes: > Dumb question, but is Sethra technically a noble? I can certainly imagine > she's been knighted or whatever, but maybe titles, uhh, expire upon death. > Or she might not have bothered. I believe I recall Vlad saying she likes > to be announced as just SL - maybe he doesn't realize there's nothing > more to be announced... > Perhaps in the spirit of one of the great rival courtesans of fin de siecle > Paris. One of them once entered Maxim's one evening wearing all the jewelry > she'd been given--lit up the room with the blaze. Next day her rival entered > Maxim's wearing no jewelry at all--followed by her maid wearing all her > mistress's jewelry. Were maids allowed openly to have mistresses? Even in gay Paree that might have been a bit much. Seriously, I don't understand how this is effective one-up-womanship. p.s. your Re software makes it hard to keep attribution clear.