Comments on: Brown Addendum, Morrissey Addendum

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:42:38 +0000

Of course. But let us not forget that FNA once wrote a letter to the Providence Journal pointing out that just because someone *appears* to be dressed like a “bag lady” and is standing on the corner, passersby should not drop change into the coffee cup she is holding.

Perhaps there was a certain smell involved as well.

By: Todd Seavey

Todd Seavey — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:27 +0000

Well, as one of Ackerman’s fellow medievalism buffs, you probably know that her adopted middle name, Nimue, _is_ an alternate name for the Lady of the _Lake_. Not that that proves anything.

By: Xine

Xine — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:33:17 +0000

“I cheer for the cloned mules.”

By the way, this reminds me of something I meant to mention weeks ago–this year’s *Time Out New York* sex issue featured a poll of sex workers. In response to the question “What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever done,” one responded “urinate on a Brown University professor.”

Not to imply that was FNA, of course.

By: Todd Seavey

Todd Seavey — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:03:29 +0000

Maybe she got tired of being confused with poet/naturalist Diane F. Ackerman — in much the same way, to use a work of art looked at in my next blog entry, RoboCop gets tired of being seen as a machine and resumes calling himself “Murphy,” leaving nary a dry eye in the house.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:16:03 +0000

According to one of the comments she has 133 letters in the NYT in all.

I also didn’t realize that she used to be named “Diana.”