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.
