Most Literate Cities
D.C. tops the charts.
Which only goes to show that you can read and read and read, and be illiterate still. (pace Hamlet)
Which only goes to show that you can read and read and read, and be illiterate still. (pace Hamlet)
Robert de Boron and the Prose Merlin
There are so many wonderful things about the internet: there was a time when a scholar had to order through ILL and wait for weeks or months before he or she could set eyes on such works as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini or Robert de Boron's Prose Merlin . No more. from Prose Merlin Robert de Boron Full wrothe and angry was the Devell, whan that oure Lorde hadde ben in helle and had take oute Adam and Eve and other at his plesier. And whan the fendes sien that, they hadden right grete feer and gret merveile. Thei assembleden togedir and seiden: "What is he this thus us supprisith and distroyeth, in so moche that oure strengthes ne nought ellis that we have may nought withholde hym, nor again hym stonde in no diffence but that he doth all that hym lyketh? We ne trowed not that eny man myght be bore of woman but that he sholde ben oures; and he that thus us distroyeth, how is he born in whom we knewe non erthely delyte?" Than ansuerde anothir fende and seide
Hamlet, actually.
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ReplyDeleteGuess I rather proved my point. For some reason I associated it with Iago. Thanks for the correction.
shalom,
Steven
Well, Iago does have that "I am not what I am" speech when he reveals his treacherous intent, which is similar in spirit to Hamlet's "smile and smile and still be a villain" speech.
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