as if Thebes-founder, Cadmus, tongues had sowne

[angevin2]

I will be a very, very happy person once I've finally finished Elyot, because he has begun to bore me silly. Every chapter goes along much the same lines, viz

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[ajodasso]

because it makes him [do stuff]

Bwahaha.

[angevin2]

Well, it does. ;)

[lain_dolohov]

That was extremely funny because of the word "foo".

[angevin2]

You may know this already, but the reason for its use is explained here. :)

[angevin2]

Reading excessive amounts of Aristotle does that to people. Or worse yet turns them into neoclassicists.1 ;)

1. Disclaimer: Some of my favorite poets can rightly be called neoclassicists.

[angevin2]

It's not so much the exemplars themselves as it is the fact that reading Elyot's prose is like swimming in wet cement.