by hilzoy
Via Crooked Timber, I see that Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog. Go read. I especially liked the advice column:
“My betrothed, a most wicked man, betrayed me near as bad as Tereus did Procne. His woman of choice commited, though, that villainy which women do best, and tempted him away. Presently it is not legal, where I live, to have either of them killed for this treachery — what shall I do to avenge the wrong they both have done to me, and to my virtue? Their joy at my grief does pain me so.
Cor Fracta Est
Ma Cher Coeur Brisee
Thoughe y love a goode revenge tragedie as much as the nexte guye, y muste counsel yow to a bettre path. Yow sholde maken pece and kepe faithe, not wyth thyne betrothede nor wyth this womanlie Diomede, but rathir with yowrselfe. For vengence aperteneth and longeth al oonly to juges. Remembre yow that pacience is a greet vertu of perfeccioun, and remembre that ther are tymes ordained unto al thynges by the first moevere — of the ookes, and of the hard stones, and of man and womman seen we also, in youthe as well as age, alle shal be dumped , a kyng as shall a page – som dumped on dates, som dumped by telephone, some dumped in compaignie, som dumped allone – ther helpeth noght, al goth that ilke weye.
And thus, take two pintes of hagen dasz dulce de leche, a ful seson of buffie the vampyre slayre, and calle me in the morninge.
Le Vostre G”
Though actually this entry is even better, but too long to excerpt.
Personally, I would rather see what the Wife of Bath’s blog had to say on the matter.
I was basically OK until I got to:
“And thus, take two pintes of hagen dasz dulce de leche, a ful seson of buffie the vampyre slayre…”
Then I just fell off my chair laughing and weeping hysterically.
My chidren were dyre concernede and much mon waxe wood.
Trust me, xanax — you have to read the entry hilzoy linked in the first comment. I wasn’t actually crying with laughter, but I came damn close.
Thanks Anarch. I looked at hil’s link and realized as soon as I saw Lost in Transcription’s quest for the identity of the Pearl/Gawain-Poet that I’d have to come back to it later… after I’d sent the kids outside to bounce on their trampoline or something.
Didn’t want them too frightened by daddy’s histrionics…
Totally OT: Re March Madness: Go Arizona Wildcats!
I confess I prefer the animated Chaucer: and you don’t even have to send the kids away 🙂
Chaucer has never done anything for me; I’m a bad reader of poetry, no doubt.
Wonder what he would have made of this: He has polio, too.