[UA] Lincoln's Yummy Son

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <holycrow at mindspring.com>
> >
> >> Rather than mythological "ogres" and "ghouls,"
> I'd think the more
> >realistic conflict would be between those who
> cannibalize for spiritual
> >reasons (some old Paupan tribes, some Amazon
> tribes, Jeffrey Dahmer) and
> >those who cannibalize out of necessity (the Donner
> party, that soccer team
> >whose plane crashed).
> >
> >Oddly enough, this is (roughly) the plot of the
> screenplay I'm working on. I
> >figure the time is right for serious cannibal noir.
> 
> Heh.  One UA screenplay idea I had was called
> "Saturnalia" and was centered
> around the "Ritual of Saturn" -- an ugly ritual that
> gives a man power by
> destroying (and ritually consuming) his offspring. 
> I was inspired to it by
> the fact that Abraham Lincoln and HPL have no living
> descendants.  (I'm
> sure there are plenty more historical examples, but
> I just don't know
> them.)  The idea is that the ritualist mortgages the
> long-term success of
> his family line by truncating it -- packing all the
> future success of his
> descendants into himself.

Nice idea, but Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, had
a pretty good career in politics.  He was present at
three separate presidential assassinations, starting,
of course, with his dad.  Here's a happy little write
up on him from Arlington Cemetary:

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/robertto.htm

and another generally weird site which focuses on
other coincidences:

http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~jonno/coincid.htm



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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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