standards. Often governing standard morally trivial, but exacting. The plot, usually concerning illegal love affair or other scandalous matter, lust and greed, self-interested cynicism; witty dialogue, sharp commentary on human weaknesses. Satire upon social attitudes, most often attacking superficiality and materialism, society where appearances count more tha true character. Oliver Goldsmith: The Good-Natur’d Man – story of the testing and curing of a generously credulous (kergeusklik) hero by the devices of a sensible uncle, She Stoops to Conquer – its bashful and reversed cetntral character, who only relaxes in company of servants, is brought out of himself by the stooping of a resourceful heroine. Richard Brinsley Sheridan: comedies equally full of action, reversal, confusion and verbal wit. The Rivals, The Relapse The School for Scandal, The Critic: or, A Tragedy Rehearsed – critical burlesque on the
with the shorthaired domestics. Another is that New England sailors took home Angoras from Turkey in the late 17th century. Due to its tufted ears and large size (though not as large as some media reports would have us believe), others believe that the cats descend from North American bobcats or bobcat/domestic cat hybrids or, even more implausibly, as a hybrid between domestic cats and lynx. The misconception that it is a lynx hybrid is unfortunately still perpetuated by some credulous cryptozoologists. Most likely, it derives from a mix of longhaired and shorthaired cats taken to New England by colonists and as ships' ratters. The rugged longhaired cats of Scotland, Norway and Russia are good candidates for some of its ancestry with the addition of Persians and Angoras. In the late 18th century Maine was a major ship-building, sailing and trading state. Trading ships would have carried a variety of animals including European cats, both as pets and as ships’
as the fake hieroglyphic papyri sometimes sold to tourists in Egypt, much longer phrases are repeated. Moreover, the words in the text recur, but in different combinations, just as in ordinary writing. 'Even if it were a hoax, there seems to be no point to having made it so long. Most critically, the medieval quasi- science that was seeking the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life while the manuscript was being written was too credulous to entertain the concept of a hoax. Voynich died in 1930. His wife, Ethel, kept the manuscript in a safe- deposit box at the Guaranty Trust Company in New York for 30 years, until her death in 1960, aged 96.* Her estate sold it to Kraus. He priced it at $160,000 because he believes that the manuscript contains information that could provide new insights into the record of man. "The moment someone can read it," he said, shortly before the Beinecke Rare
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