Adding to the Secret of the Secret Vatican Archives

The Vatican Secret Archives have 100 rooms and 100 kilometers of "documentation."

(Thanks, Diane Sawyer, who really is very beautiful in person.)

[Er, the link to my own blog doesn't seem to be working (above). See Wednesday, April 20, 2005.]

(Addendum: The popes used to sit occasionally on "a strange purple, marble chair." It had a "strange hole" in it, through which a cardinal could occasionally stick his hand, apparently in order to confirm that the pope was a man. The operative phrase was: "tesiculos habet." So says Diane Sawyer, who, as you know now, is really very beautiful in person.)