Working on my idea of a scholarly article, trying to trace back the sources of Gamoneda's Libro de los venenos in Ancient botanical history. Dioscorides and Kratevas. What I find pleasurable is how far afield this is taking me from my normal channels of information. It didn't help me that Gamoneda spelled Kratevas when the more normal spelling is "Crateuas." That wasted at least three hours of search time. The good news is that there is a specialist on the history of botany at the Spencer research library in Kansas.

Of course, none of this research has anything to do with Gamoneda's book, which is deliberately misleading in such respects. I just have to go back and see what he is making up and what he actually found.