🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:27:09 -0700, HHW <coaster132000@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Okay, I have now read your husban's journal.
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>"The protagonist is twenty-nine year old the Hon. Rudolf Rassendyll,
>younger brother of the Earl of Burlesdon and (through an ancestor's
>sexual indiscretion) a distant cousin of Rudolf V, the soon-to-be-
>crowned King of Ruritania (a Germanic kingdom situated 'twixt the
>German and Austrian Empires). King Rudolf is a hard-drinking playboy,
>unpopular with the common people, but supported by the aristocracy,
>the Church, the Army, and the rich classes in general. His political
>rival is his younger half-brother, Michael, Duke and Governor of
>Strelsau, the capital city. Michael has no legitimate claim to the
>throne, because he is the son of their father's second, morganatic
>marriage: there are hints, about his swarthy appearance and
>Rassendyll's taunting him as a 'mongrel', that he may be partly
>Jewish. Michael is regarded as champion of Strelsau's poor working
>classes, and also is popular with the peasants in the countryside. The
>novel seems sympathetic, however, with those who would support the
>dissolute despot.
>When Michael has Rudolf abducted and imprisoned in the castle in the
>small town of Zenda, Rassendyll must impersonate the future King at
>the coronation. There are complications, plots, and counter-plots,
>among them the schemes of Michael's mistress Antoinette de Mauban, and
>those of his villainous henchman Rupert of Hentzau, and Rassendyll
>falling in love with Princess Flavia, the King's betrothed. In the
>end, the King is restored to his throne - but the lovers must part."

He;s obsessed w/this shit.  He;s not a religious jew as I am.  He even
drives his car to be serviced on sabbaths, for G-d;s sake!

Susan