Afterword: So What Brought You Here, Lucrezia?

A few visitors to this site have expressed their extreme (and fortunately pleasant) surprise to run into Lucrezia in late 20th century Geocities. Why would a 16th century duchess suddenly appear in such an unlikely setting?

I guess she just couldn't help it. It's a natural outcome of her heritage. Lucrezia's mother encouraged imaginative games in Lucrezia and her cohorts when they were children. The comment made by Marilyn Monroe about how looking back on her childhood she saw she was playacting all her life strikes a familiar chord.

Other influences during Lucrezia's youth that may have contributed to her emergence were the television series Dark Shadows and the "notorious" Process Church (many thanks to the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance for a refreshingly unbiased account of the Processean subculture). Bainbridge (1997) gives an enthusiastic interpretation of the more dramatic effusions of Processean culture.

In choosing such a misunderstood character from history, I suppose I intend to portray the misunderstood humanity, searching for love, present in us all, akin to both Mary Shelley's mournful, misunderstood monster and Robert de Grimston's archetypical representations.

Lucrezia
July 1998

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