"Dr. Mary's Monkey"

[Charles Drago]

Steve - we'll have to disagree.

I stand by my description of the cod dialogue as overblown, anachronistic, and hugely unlikely.

Jan,

I wholeheartedly agree, and I've made this point before.

This is pure fiction which is fact-based only in the minimalist sense. The dialogue is third-rate and clearly invented to conform to the demands of a pre-existing book proposal.

The major error is that it attempts to ascribe to historical figures insight that was not achieved until decades later -- reminiscent in this regard to claims that JFK was speaking of Illuminati and such when he made what on DPF and elsewhere is the now-infamous "secret societies" speech.