Until the barbarian depredations, the City of Mediomatrix was one of the principal towns of Gaul. It was the birthplace of Freda Weekly (born Emma Maria Frieda Johanna Freiin, Baroness von Richthofen.) She was an inveterate walker, translator and novelist. For a time she lived at the Tinner’s Arms in the village of Zennor in Cornwall, not far from St Senara's Church where she saw a carved bench-end depicting a mermaid. Her lover, the radical psychoanalyst Otto Gross, championed an early form of anti-psychiatry, sexual liberation and depth psychology all of which have influenced Ferabdurus Lotus, Reikarial Therapist, and part-owner of Zangwill’s Bazaar of Curiosities. Freda Weekly died in Taos in 1956. (She was also a friend of David Eder).
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