Right?? I was definitely thinking about your icon when I read that line about walking through Paris :)
Hmm, yeah, I don't think Émilie really had a type. I feel like you could make an argument (though not a strong one, given the lack of data) that at least for some of her life, she subscribed to what my best friend (who is a mathematician, and the one I was thinking I should call "the divine geometer") once called the tendency to "pick the smartest guy in the room," which I think is a common inclination among technically-minded het women -- not all, for sure, and it's a trait that gets outgrown to a certain extent, but enough that it wouldn't surprise me to see it in Émilie, let's say. Now, Saint-Lambert doesn't seem to quite fit this mold, but by that time she may have been ready for someone who was a bit different than Voltaire :) (And her husband doesn't either, of course, but I imagine he also probably served as a good counterpoint to Voltaire...)
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Re: Arianrhod - some thoughts on the Émilie section
Date: 2021-04-14 05:12 am (UTC)Hmm, yeah, I don't think Émilie really had a type. I feel like you could make an argument (though not a strong one, given the lack of data) that at least for some of her life, she subscribed to what my best friend (who is a mathematician, and the one I was thinking I should call "the divine geometer") once called the tendency to "pick the smartest guy in the room," which I think is a common inclination among technically-minded het women -- not all, for sure, and it's a trait that gets outgrown to a certain extent, but enough that it wouldn't surprise me to see it in Émilie, let's say. Now, Saint-Lambert doesn't seem to quite fit this mold, but by that time she may have been ready for someone who was a bit different than Voltaire :) (And her husband doesn't either, of course, but I imagine he also probably served as a good counterpoint to Voltaire...)