The Boston Globe, August 15th, 1999
Katherine A. Powers, a writer and critic, lives in Cambridge. Her column appears on alternate Sundays. Her e-mail address is pow(at sign)world.std.com. I have been reading from the diary of Samuel Pepys (in "A Pepys Anthology," edited by Robert Latham and Linnet Latham, University of California Press, $34.95), a work that, before now, I had attended to only as stray quotations cropped up in other books. This is strange because 17th-century England is one of my great interests, being a time of astonishing events and, even more to my taste, of exuberant crackpottery. I had never bothered with Pe...
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