Retraction of Previous Arrogant Ranting

After re-reading "Two for the Lions" I was curious about Silphium. But I forgot to look it up. Now Frank's re-reading it and he reminded me. The wikipedia article is very interesting - the silphium seed is where the heart shape, meaning love, comes from. And it lead me on to this , which is even more interesting, especially the closing observations. And the guy is in Saudi?!? Hmmm. "Hi there ...