[UA] Devotion

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Tim Toner <thanatos at interaccess.com> wrote:
> >
> > IIRC, Isaac Newton never married and might have
> died a virgin (the
> virginity of dea guys is hard to
> > validate, however) but I'm too lazy to back that
> up.
> 
> For some reason beyond comprehension, I tossed my
> copy of The Book of Lists
> a few years ago.  One of these lists went into 10
> (or so) famous men who
> probably died a virgin (or nearly so).  Newton was
> mentioned, as was Hitler.
> They backed up their claims with some armchair
> psychoanalysis, noting
> Hitler's extreme hang-ups about sex (the pre-cursor
> of the CIA, the OSS,
> considered dropping pornographic leaflets on
> Hitler's Bunker to make him
> wig-out).

HA!  They should have sent him pictures of J. Edgar
Hoover in drag.  Of course, that probably would have
worked on Stalin, too, who, by all reports, seems to
have had it together on the opposite end of the
Hitler/Newton scale.

<snip nice build up about suffering>

>  Since all the
> daughters married and took
> their husbands' name, the only chance to continue
> was him, and he was about
> to agree to never marry or sire children.  And I
> remember thinking to
> myself, "Damn.  That's devotion."

This is EXACTLY why the next UA book needs more
preists.  I'm not kidding, either.  Father Carillo is
great, but devotion and faith are as important to
magic as anything else.  I mean people devoted to
organized religions.  Hindu, Catholic, Muslim,
Buddhist and Jewish cabals could be neat, although, of
course, you'll have to tread carefully.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
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