And then some oon cometh and eteth them both

[daegaer]

O, grete joie! Geoffrey Chaucer hath updayted his blogge! The Aeneid and Zombyes, wherein Geoffrey cometh up wyth a cunnyng planne for the writyng of storyes that shal be lyk unto cat-nippe for the loveres of bookes wyth lytel efforte.

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[eurirei]

...
So, I was going to start writing this, but after spending a minute staring at the computer trying to come up with some kind of words to express my hosfaderial* glee and amusement brought about by the notion of Chaucer with a blog and also the ye olde english this is written in.
Which, now I think of it, raises the question: are the zombie portions of the book in similarly archaic language? Because that would be awesome.
...Someone needs to do a version of The Tale of Genji in which he's an incubus. Seriously.
I rather think this one post has done more to raise my opinion of the "[insert classic here] and [insert monster here]" franchise than anything else thus far. I may actually have to read one of them, now. Someday.

*hosfaderial: word I made up, it means 'to the extent of reducing/in a way which reduces me to verbalizing nonsensical gibberish and gobbledygook, such as 'hosfaderial''[you know when your mind produces that kind of unpronounceable nonsense which is most akin to keyboard-mashing? when your brain tries to SAY aogiuhaerijbgeqirgr, because you are reduced to that kind of nonsense? that's what I mean.]

cat-nippe!

[daegaer]

Have you seen reading_genji? It hasn't had a post for a long time, but there's a lot of interesting stuff on it - no Genji as incubus, I think, but lots of fascinating reactions to the story, links to great articles giving cultural background and so on!

Chaucer's blogge be wel worth yr whyle in the redeing thereof!

[eurirei]

No I have not, that sounds fascinating AND helpful, thank you very much!

it certainly is!