Vacation

[elaby]

MAN, I love vacation. I did NO HOMEWORK this weekend. Which means that I have to buckle down today and tomorrow, but still... a whole weekend with caitirin with no homework hanging over my head. It was glorious. We even got, like, dishes and laundry done o.o

[edit for brief interlude in which elaby ascertains that her answering machine isn't coming on, doctors call asking for bloodwork, various scheduling has to be done around vacations/classes, caitirin is summarily called and telephones and answering machines are unplugged, now to resume working correctly]

That was weird O.o

Anyway, I should get back to reading Malory. I took a break to try to find some drawings I'd been looking for, one for Caitirin and one from this book hak42 lent me last year in which King Arthur awoke in the present day and Merlin was 11 years old. I also found my notebooks from my first year of college, which I'd been looking for - it turns out I pulled all the pages out and stuck them into a binder, and had forgotten I did that. Heh.

Back to Malory ^^;;

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Nowadays everybody wanna talk like Sir Thomas Malory

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

(From my journal)

After a time so long that I cannot remember how long it is, I have finally completed the 1000 plus pages of Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", which has in the most part been a very great struggle. But towards the end, Malory shows what might have been, by writing something that is akin to being recognisable as a book, and almost recognisable as prose. After 1000 pages, I suspect he had to have some chance of getting it right ---.

The purpose, for me, was to research the subject of Arthur deeply enough that I could comprehend how to expand 'Empyreal' into a complete Arthurian cycle. I believe I now know what I need to know; and I hope that the first to tell will be a publisher. My conception of things Arthurian is now so revolutionary that I won't be sharing the shock with anyone except my formidable editor and critic :)


Just a buncha gibberish
Sir Thomas Malory, Morte d'Arthur, from book 18 chapter 25: 'How love is likened to summer'.

For like as winter rasure doth always erase and deface green summer, so fareth it by unstable love in man and woman. For in many persons there is no stability; for we may see all day, for a little blast of winter’s rasure, anon we shall deface and lay apart true love for little or nought, that cost much thing; this is no wisdom nor stability, but it is feebleness of nature and great disworship, whomsoever useth this.

Therefore, like as May month flowereth and flourisheth in many gardens, so in likewise let every man of worship flourish his heart in this world, first unto God, and next unto the joy of them that he promised his faith unto; for there was never worshipful man nor worshipful woman, but they loved one better than another; and worship in arms may never be foiled, but first reserve the honour to God, and secondly the quarrel must come of thy lady: and such love I call virtuous love.

But nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so; men and women could love together seven years, and no licours lusts were between them, and then was love, truth, and faithfulness: and lo, in likewise was used love in King Arthur’s days.

Wherefore I liken love nowadays unto summer and winter; for like as the one is hot and the other cold, so fareth love nowadays; therefore all ye that be lovers call unto your remembrance the month of May, like as did Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.



I feel as though Malory takes 1000 pages to gain the confidence to become a writer himself, and not merely a collator or translator. Either that, or late in life, he suddenly knew real love for the first time. Who knows? Due to Caxton, that may be because of the first generation of fangirls!! :)