Comments | angevin2: and Edward's knights through all the world had prick and praise for best

angevin2

and Edward's knights through all the world had prick and praise for best

Sep 14, 2007 17:39

By a felicitous occurrence of scheduling, my next Wednesday night comp class falls on International Talk Like a Pirate DayI think we are going to have to take part in the piratical festivities. Also, next week we are going to be discussing "A Modest Proposal," which is not a bad text to be talking about on this date. Arrrrrrrrr, we be eatin' some ( Read more... )

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dramaturgy September 14 2007, 23:15:01 UTC

Mm Irish babies.

angevin2 September 15 2007, 19:05:25 UTC

Like veal...only babies! ;)

so_lily_briscoe September 14 2007, 23:24:44 UTC

Um.

Icon.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

angevin2 September 15 2007, 19:05:39 UTC

lnhammer September 15 2007, 00:36:46 UTC

I will now spend the evening washing my brain out with Golding's Ovid, possibly using some Poly-Obion for dessert.

---L.

angevin2 September 15 2007, 02:17:03 UTC

This may, in fact, be the only time in history that Poly-Olbion has been associated with brain-washing.

(Not that I don't have great love for Michael Drayton, mind you.)

lnhammer September 15 2007, 00:39:24 UTC

BTW, I would just like to point out that the reason it looks dodgy is that it could have been written by Lewis Carroll. And I don't just mean that in the punning sense of his last name -- it could be part of the verse at the Knave of Hearts trial.

---L.

ricardienne September 15 2007, 03:12:34 UTC

Rhyming fourteeners really are special aren't they? I would swear that it's the pattern for the less than stellar historical epics that showed up in St Nicholas for the edification of the young.