Something About Eternal Flames

Voynich News noted this fact recently, allowing the words "Voynich" and "Susanna Hoffs" to grace the same page.

The song "Eternal Flame" was written by hugely successful American songwriter Billy Steinberg with Tom Kelly and Susanna Hoffs (of The Bangles). The inspiration for the song came from an eternal flame seen by Bangles' bass-player Michael Steele burning at Graceland in Elvis Presley's memory, as well as from one at a Palm Springs synagogue Steinberg had seen when very young. But historically, claims of actual eternal flames go back a very long way: in my book, I mentioned briefly that many in the Renaissance believed a "perpetual light" burned in the Temple of Vesta in Ancient Rome.

One wonders if Hamish Runcet, the long-retired vestal verger in England, had such a flame in his parish?