Sunday, April 09, 2006
If you are not reading "Chaucer's" blog...
...you are TOTALLY missing out!
Today he is making notes on a book he wants to write, so he won't forget any of his good ideas:
"-The dog-maysteres Tale: the dog-mayster (talle, curtel of greene), his dogge, and his companiounes do fynde an olde wool-quaye that semeth to be havnted by a foule spectre – one of them has those fancie new eye-lenses, the which she doth frequentli misplace – eventuallie they fynde that yt is John Gowere who maketh the appearaunce and similitude of a hauntynge in ordre to kepe the quaye closid, for he disliketh the noyse of woole shipmentes when he writeth hys lame poemes. They do counfounde hys plannes and he sayth “Cest conseil avreit eu success, si non pur l’interference de voz jeuenez meddleurs!” "
You don't have to be a history or lit major to get the jokes, either (although i'm sure you get MORE of them that way). My own grasp of these fields is very self-taught scattershot, and *I* still think this guy is a brilliant genius!
http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/
Today he is making notes on a book he wants to write, so he won't forget any of his good ideas:
"-The dog-maysteres Tale: the dog-mayster (talle, curtel of greene), his dogge, and his companiounes do fynde an olde wool-quaye that semeth to be havnted by a foule spectre – one of them has those fancie new eye-lenses, the which she doth frequentli misplace – eventuallie they fynde that yt is John Gowere who maketh the appearaunce and similitude of a hauntynge in ordre to kepe the quaye closid, for he disliketh the noyse of woole shipmentes when he writeth hys lame poemes. They do counfounde hys plannes and he sayth “Cest conseil avreit eu success, si non pur l’interference de voz jeuenez meddleurs!” "
You don't have to be a history or lit major to get the jokes, either (although i'm sure you get MORE of them that way). My own grasp of these fields is very self-taught scattershot, and *I* still think this guy is a brilliant genius!
http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/
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