Historical Person Most Like You....

[SEVERUSMAX]

....in my case, Sulla, the Roman Dictator.

He, like me, was bi, domineering, sometimes miserly, austere, very interested in sex, conservative in some ways, liberal in others, aristocratic (but grew up poor), fascinated with war and philosophy, interested in the arts and sciences, and willing to consider violent revolution as a solution to political problems.

 

[oggbashan]

...was me.

Not Henry VIII but Og, King of Bashan.

A few hundred wives and concubines, a large bed, and a long life cut short in my prime.

Og

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

...was me.

Not Henry VIII but Og, King of Bashan.

A few hundred wives and concubines, a large bed, and a long life cut short in my prime.

Og

Long digits, too, right? Didn't he lose some thumbs?

 

[Tom Collins]

Beats the shit out of me, Sev. Can you think of someone who's an incorigable flirt and a glorious smart ass?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Historical Person Most Like You

None.

As everyone is no doubt thankful, I'm sui generous.

Either that or I'm so low-profile no one has ever bothered to make a record of any historical figure that obscure.

Rumple "one of a kind" Foreskin

 

[Boota]

The Marquis DeSade. Not because I write porn, but because everything I do is designed to upset the stiffs.

 

[arienette]

The Marquis DeSade. Not because I write porn, but because everything I do is designed to upset the stiffs.

You've seen Quills, right?

 

[ElizabethWest]

I wish it were Queen Elizabeth I, but I think I'm more like her crazy cousin.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I'd like to say Anais Nin... but I'm more Sylvia Plath...

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I'm not too keen on everything that Sulla did, either. The wholesale slaughter of his political enemies strikes me as unwise. Mind you, several were spared. And his standing courts were an astounding innovation.

 

[entitled]

uh... me.

There's a tenth-century me, a 14th century me... Just average folk trying to get on with their lives.

 

[zeb1094]

Lazrus Long of the ... wait, wrong universe.

Historical figure...hmmmm...General George Patton, yes General Patton.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Trigger? Lassie?

 

[Tom Collins]

Lazrus Long of the ... wait, wrong universe.

Historical figure...hmmmm...General George Patton, yes General Patton.

Grok this...Lazarus Long is a historical figure...he was born durring Woodrow Wilson's presidency...he also happens to be a future figure...but in truth, it's my belief that Lazarus Long was purely Robert A. Heinlein as a character within his own stories and no one can dispute that Heinlein is an historical personage. He is dead, after all. So? So! That would mean that you see yourself as Heinlein. Not a bad personage, Sir. He was incredibly infuential on our culture at large.

Not to mention the fact that he was a damned fine looking man when he was in his prime.

http://www.gotterdammerung.org/books/robert-heinlein/robert-heinlein.jpg

 

[zeb1094]

Grok this...Lazarus Long is a historical figure...he was born durring Woodrow Wilson's presidency...he also happens to be a future figure...but in truth, it's my belief that Lazarus Long was purely Robert A. Heinlein as a character within his own stories and no one can dispute that Heinlein is an historical personage. He is dead, after all. So? So! That would mean that you see yourself as Heinlein. Not a bad personage, Sir. He was incredibly infuential on our culture at large.

Not to mention the fact that he was a damned fine looking man when he was in his prime.

http://www.gotterdammerung.org/books/robert-heinlein/robert-heinlein.jpg

I don't know about good looking, as men are not noticed like that by me. He was a fine author and I have read all about Lazarus Long, a dashing, devil may care individual. Was this Heilein writing himself into his stories? I have no doubt. But I do not identify myself as Mr. Heinlein or Mr. Long. I most identify my self with Capt. Zeb Carter (ret.).

 

[WhiteTigerNipples]

Little Annie Fanny without the blond hair and big tits.

 

[Stella_Omega]

John Wilmot, probably the brother of king Charles 2nd, and second Earl of Rochester. He abducted an hieress and was thrown into the tower for it. She refused to deal with any other men, and he was released so they could be wed. He wrote wonderfully filthy poetry, vicious political satire, fucked any woman or man that showed willing. For his outspoken ways he was banished time and again, and always brought back to court by his king. He perfomed acts of magnificent bravery, and acts of horrible cowardice. He died at 33 of cirrhosis and syphilis. That's me, save for the modern miracle of pennicillin!

Actually, it always cracks me up when people compare themselves to royalty.

In reality, I'd be some pissed off peasant woman, digging potatoes in a muddy field with three bairns clinging to my skirts and the babby tied into its fetid cradle back at the drafty leaky dirt-floored cottage...

But if I truly had a choice, I would have been most happy as a maker of dolls and windup automata in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries- back when hand skills meant something...

 

[Xelebes]

Mmmm...

The only one I can think of is that famous botanist who has the same name as me - and is only similar to me by name!

 

[Aurora Black]

The first person to come to mind for me was Cleopatra, but that may be pushing it. I never married my brother.

 

[Recidiva]

Jeanne D'Arc.

Strong willed, single minded, slightly if not entirely crazy and burned at the stake for her beliefs, even though she was right a lot of the time.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

John Wilmot, probably the brother of king Charles 2nd, and second Earl of Rochester. He abducted an hieress and was thrown into the tower for it. She refused to deal with any other men, and he was released so they could be wed. He wrote wonderfully filthy poetry, vicious political satire, fucked any woman or man that showed willing. For his outspoken ways he was banished time and again, and always brought back to court by his king. He perfomed acts of magnificent bravery, and acts of horrible cowardice. He died at 33 of cirrhosis and syphilis. That's me, save for the modern miracle of pennicillin!

Actually, it always cracks me up when people compare themselves to royalty.

In reality, I'd be some pissed off peasant woman, digging potatoes in a muddy field with three bairns clinging to my skirts and the babby tied into its fetid cradle back at the drafty leaky dirt-floored cottage...

But if I truly had a choice, I would have been most happy as a maker of dolls and windup automata in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries- back when hand skills meant something...

Royalty? No. A ruthless and brilliant Roman Dictator with a strong intention of restoring the Republic to its greatness? Of course.

And when Og compares himself to royalty, HE can be believed, I think.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I don't know about good looking, as men are not noticed like that by me. He was a fine author and I have read all about Lazarus Long, a dashing, devil may care individual. Was this Heilein writing himself into his stories? I have no doubt. But I do not identify myself as Mr. Heinlein or Mr. Long. I most identify my self with Capt. Zeb Carter (ret.).

Don't most writers do that to some extent in their novels/short stories?

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Beats the shit out of me, Sev. Can you think of someone who's an incorigable flirt and a glorious smart ass?

Mae West?

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

uh... me.

There's a tenth-century me, a 14th century me... Just average folk trying to get on with their lives.

Probably true of many. No shame in it, if that's who you are.

 

[cloudy]

In reality, I'd be some pissed off peasant woman, digging potatoes in a muddy field with three bairns clinging to my skirts and the babby tied into its fetid cradle back at the drafty leaky dirt-floored cottage...

I can just see it now:

"Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn't you?"