Babes and Sucklings Redux (or do I mean Revenant?)

[steepholm]

Geoffrey Chaucer has been reading Twilight Vespers:

In this fyne book of sparklie vampyres, Bella Cygne moveth from Essex to Yorkshyre to lyve with her fathir, who ys a sheriff and escheator. At a scole ful of recentlie coyned stereotypes, she witnesseth the fayre skyn and fashion-sprede slow-mocioun hotenesse of the Cu Chulainn clan, the which have all eaten long ago of the magical Irisshe Salmon of Really Good Hair (oon byte of this magical salmon and ye shal have good hair for evir). Aftir Bella doth see the hottest of the clan, Edward, stop a wagon wyth hys bare handes, fight off twentie churles, and brood so much he did make Angel look lyk Mister Rogeres, she doth realise that the Cu Chulainns are vampyres. But they are good vampyres, who drinke wyne. Ther is considerablie moore sexual tensioun than in Piers Plowman.

Yt is reallie very good. Ich did reade al of Vespers, right through to Compline and ich have just startid Matins. This ys absolutelie the beste teenage sparklie vampyre love storye ich haue evir reade. And the moore wondirful thing ys that Philippa hath seen me readinge and suggestid that we visit Yorkshyre together. Yt ys amazinge how much good a well-placid “I lyk watchinge you sleepe. Ich fynde it fascinatinge” can do.

Thys is a bandwagon the which ich wolde lyke to leap upon. Ich am thinkinge that I shal add a litel sparkle to that Tales of Canterburye projecte ich have been werkinge on for several yeeres nowe. Ich am now writing the recentlye-renamed Wyf of Bathory’s Prologue.

Comments

[gair.livejournal.com]

Oh, yayy, Chaucer's back and he's GOOD!

See you in a couple of hours, btw, bearing WINE and FEMINIST SHORT-STORY COLLECTIONS.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Ich laffe and lauf.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Definitely the beste teenage sparklie vampyre love storye ich haue evir reade. ^_^

(here via Sartorias)

[sovay]

Ther is considerablie moore sexual tensioun than in Piers Plowman.

Huzzah.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

And, it's snappier than The Fall of Princes!

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Oh frabjious day, when Chaucer's blog is back.

I love his tweets, too.

[scribblerworks.livejournal.com]

O beluved Chaucer! Ich had such dyre concern that thou shouldst delve into Vespers with such pleaseaure. And then recollection brought to mine thought that thou it wast who bestowed Sir Thopas upon us!

:D

(Ack! My middle English is haphazard! Bleh)

[dancingwriter.livejournal.com]

Ich haue juste boughten the chemise that sayeth, "And then Buffy staked Edward. The End." Now ich wolde it were written in thine goode Englysshe, Geoffrey.