T'is pity she's a whore (instead of an editor)

[marnanightingale]

Just another quiet night on IM:

angevin2
that is, not so much a case of straight-up (fnarr) double entendre as it is creating a general climate of free-floating, free-association filth

commodorified
oh GOD
'For me, the question is not why make a film in Gaelic but why not make a film in Gaelic?' says Young, who is self-taught in the tongue and whore children are fluent.

angevin2
(like, how would one paraphrase the garden scene in richard ii? which is filthtacular)
...
MY KINGDOM FOR A PROOFREADER


commodorified
YES
*posts this*

angevin2
also i am still not convinced that richard iii is telling the audience, in his opening soliloquy, that he, like hitler, has only got one ball...
(...)
conversely, i do not think we need to be told what a "wanton ambling nymph" is ...

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Also, teaching tonight with Monty Python's Flying Cervix The Women's Health Educators Collective. Went fairly well, though they'd moved the location and everyone got lost.

Best line of the night:

Student who has become distracted by a question in the midst of practicing the bi-manual exam, upon resuming:

"Now I've lost my cervix."

Me, rather (mock) dryly[1]:

"No, you have lost MY cervix."

(Room erupts in, appropriately enough, hysterics.)

[1] A singularly unsuitable adverb choice. Out of three teachers tonight, two of us were on Day One of our periods. It is often thus, and no real problem, though it disconcerts the students no end at first. *insert Red Sea/Moses/Promised Land jokes (and specula) here*

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(Later)

angevin2
OH LORD MY BRAIN JUST DID A BAD BAD THING
not about your pants
about crowns and phalluses [2]

commodorified
ah yes?

angevin2
and certain scenes in 2 henry iv

commodorified
do tell, I'll edit it in...

(...)

angevin2
"God knows, my son,
By what bypaths and indirect crook'd ways
I met this crown..."

commodorified
...
...
!!!

angevin2
"how i came by the crown, O God forgive!"

(...)

angevin2
i am still not sure the crown works as a phallus exactly
maybe a phallic signifier of sorts

commodorified
IT DOES NOT IT IS QUITE POINTY

angevin2
oh dear lord


commodorified
OW OW OW GO AWAY

angevin2
also it's too big to be a cockring

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angevin2
there is a medieval studies journal called speculum

(...)

commodorified
if it's edited by pedersen and graves i quit.

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And so to bed. Me and Titus Andronicus.

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[2] angevin2
possibly the post should mention, btw, that kiernan's book mentions "crown" among the "male genitalia words"
or, you know, not, and it can sort of go contextless

Comments

[brownbetty]

aaaah! Those speculum (speculae?) scare me! You are made of sterner stuff than I.

[lalouve.livejournal.com]

I used to think one of the advantages of academia was that people got your references to various obscure texts. Nowadays I'm not so sure that's an advantage (and no one at work gets my Buffy references anyway).

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Heh: did I ever mention my 'lost cervix' story? While I was having an examination at University College Hospital, the nurse said 'I can't find your cervix!' - was strongly tempted to reply 'Um: maybe I left it out in the waiting area?' However, there are positions in which it is probably not wise to indulge one's sense of humour.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I never would have resisted...

[jucundushomo.livejournal.com]

...whore children are fluent.

Those poor whore children! What will Gaelic (and Christopher Young) do to them next?!

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> "God knows, my son,
> By what bypaths and indirect crook'd ways
> I met this crown..."

> "how i came by the crown, O God forgive!"

I am *still* reading "crown" as a synonym for cervix.

I'm just sayin'.

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

The other day I had a conversation with a friend -- remembering this post, and prompted by the appearance of the word in something we were looking at for Latin reading group -- on why it was fortunate that Shakespeare's Richard II was not written in Latin. You see, the Latin word for mirror is speculum.

And Richard II is many things, but he is not Annie Sprinkle.

Which is a roundabout way of saying OH DEAR LORD MY BRAIN STILL HURTS.