[Artemisia] Cariadoc eyes, was Email and Social Interaction

[S CLEMENGER]

If you're going to start questioning someone's veracity, you might want to take the time to go back and check a post or two.  In my post this morning, I stated that I *knew* that HG Cariadoc had written something about his choice to not wear corrective lenses when in persona.  I stated that I *thought* it was in an article about authenticity. I have a copy of the "Miscellany," in which said article appears (as I *also* mentioned in my post), but simply lacked the time this morning (I was about to leave for work) to go dig it out of the cookbook bookcase, where it normally resides.  
Given that I've kinda been lumped together with a man that famous and intelligent (published author, law professor, king in multiple SCA kingdoms, son of a Nobel Prize laureate), I rather think I'm honored.  Otherwise, I'd be likely to think of such phrases as "my contrariness was directed at Maire, who apparently feels I should accept something as gospel because *she thinks* she read it" (note the direct and accurate quote) as deliberate rudeness, which invites any number of possible responses....
Maire
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: morgan wolf<mailto:morganblaidddu at yahoo.com> 
  To: Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list<mailto:artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:12 PM
  Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Cariadoc eyes, was Email and Social Interaction



  No, I'm saying that Maire stating she thinks she read it doesn't necessarily make it true.  While Mistress Maire is, in my estimation, a highly intelligent and well-read lady, I am no more inclined to believe that something I find doubtful is true because she believes she read it than she is to believe that bubba is a period name just because I say I think I read it somewhere.  As for Cariadoc himself, as you yourself pointed out, his vision may not be as good as it was when he wrote that article, so while it may have been true then, it isn't necessarily true now..  Further, as I said before, I find it hard to believe, but that doesn't make it impossible, and I'm fully prepared to be wrong, nor does it really matter either way.

  Besides the potential issues with suggesting out of the blue that a
  Duke is a liar, do you have any possible reason besides contrariness
  to doubt the veracity of what he says?

  Other than the fact that I didn't "out of the blue suggest that a Duke is a liar", and that other fact that I've known enough Dukes since they were squires to be intimidated by the mere title, my contrariness was directed at Maire, who apparently feels I should accept something as gospel because *she thinks* she read it.  Having neither read the article nor met/shot with said Duke, I return to my previous position- I find it hard to believe, not impossible.