I was thinking of writing a best seller. You know, like a follow up to all of the historically inaccurate books floating around based on famous historical figures. My only sources will be hearsay and other works of fiction, which I will have other people summarize.Here is the gist: The book will follow the life of DaVinci's secret half-sister who grew up in the Azores. She was raised by flying nuns who gave her the secrets to human flight. When she discovers that she was not conceived through immaculate conception, which at the time was considered to be an early IVF procedure based on anonymous donors, she sets out to find her long lost brother, Leonardo. But being a lowly flying nun, and he a big-shot artist, he denies her familial bond. However, when she accidentally slips on some well-placed paint near an open window, Leonardo discovers that she has something that he wants: the secret to no-frills flight. In a variety of comic circumstances, he tries to obtain her secret and the slapstick humor is nonstop. . . until someone ends up very dead or in Canada.
If you have any DaVinci stories to share, please do so. Next week I may move onto the little-known history of the guy who started the shoe-wearing craze back in 10,000 B.C.E.
3 comments:
You can't forget his long lost brother Otto, who was born with a vestigial tail and the ability to put people into a catatonic state with a high pitched squeal. He is normal otherwise, and has a dog named Prada, who, ironically, has no tail.
Oh, also, I think the three of them should get together and start a band called Uncle Bob, not because they have an uncle named Bob, but because they just might.
FYI - There use to be a limited DaVinci sketch and notes collection, at least as of 1970, at the library of Steven's Institute of Technology in Hoboken.
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