Confirms all my suspicions about That London

[bunn]

Although my family are from London, I myself have spent most of my life in the West.  Therefore, I, like my adopted people of the West, look upon London with doubtful and suspicious eyes.   I have to admit though, this description of it in 1192 does make it sound almost fun.  More braggarts than in the whole of France, indeed!

Comments

[oonaseckar]

The old girl hasn't changed a bit, then.

[bunn]

I particularly like the firm statement that 'all this sort of people fill up all the houses'.

ALL the houses! Full of sorceresses and smooth-skinned lads!

(I wonder what was so suspect about smooth skin. Is our writer a believer in honesty expressed through the medium of pimples...?)

[ylla]

I am curious about the distinctions between smooth-skinned lads, pretty-boys and effeminates!

[topum]

Are the smooth-skinned lads metrosexuals?

[oonaseckar]

Also intrigued by the evil of those damn belly-dancers. And mimes. Marcel Marceau, so much to answer for.