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We could be building chatbot clones of Cicero or Samuel Pepys or even an asshole-genius like Feynman.

Bagwell, had been instructed to offer herself to Pepys by her husband, who thought it would help his advancement.

In an especially heated quarrel over Elizabeth’s management of the household, Pepys gave her a black eye.

Perhaps you could briefly explain what leads you to believe Pepys was a rapist.

For a start, you seem not to know which century Pepys was from!

That depth of revelation is one of the things that make Pepys hard to put down, even as you find his personality increasingly disagreeable.

Yes, Pepys was a charming, fascinating, funny, highly intelligent man who was also a rapist.

The Great Fire of London - Samuel Pepys 7.

@samuelpepys is steadily posting the diary of Samuel Pepys - a famous diarist from the 17th century.

Even for his time Pepys was, well, a bit much, and he knew it, and felt guilty about it occasionally in the diary.

I suspect most people who read unabridged Pepys for any length of time end up feeling very ambivalent about him as a person.

It's complicated by the fact that Pepys was well aware that his behaviour was wrong, but hypocrisy and a public/private moral duality was, again, pretty normal in men of his station.

Pepys did not present it in quite those terms, but it is clearly how it was.” > Another obvious victim of Pepys’s sexual involvements beyond his household was his wife.

Loveman describes the marriage as a “love match, albeit a tempestuous one.” The diary records the couple’s arguments over Pepys’s infidelities, and there were other tensions in the marriage.

The story,” notes Tomalin, “is a shameful one of a woman used by two bullies: her husband, hoping for promotion, and Pepys, who was to arrange it.

A relevant quote from the diary of Samuel Pepys, where he proudly notes the date when he first attached buckles on his shoes (thereby announcing himself as a young gentleman on the rise): "Sunday 22 January 1660 To church in the afternoon to Mr.

In The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys, author Geoffrey Pimm explores Pepys’s predations at length, drawing on the diarist’s own accounts of his misdeeds to build the case against him.

At least there is the possibility of crossing paths with Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, the early Royal Society etc.

If you ever wondered what travel was like in earlier centuries, it's a delightful account but nothing like Pepys.