'Does his character develop?'
-'What character?'
'He wants to kill them both, of course, but yields to the weeping women.'
'Why does she want to marry him in the first place? All he does is give her crap about how ugly she is.'
'And she turns into a beautiful woman-"ah, I see the light now!"
Chaste men (ie priests) had to ride on mares. Stallions weren't allowed.
'A jolly joke based on cynical principles.'
'Getting married is a completely inappropriate response to the realization of a life lived in sin.'
'There is a literature that says arousing a woman is necessary for conception. Of course, Aristotle says that this has nothing to do with it.'
And he gives a description of their forthcoming nuptials "Eventually, I'll get off you..."
Pigs could be tried for murder and, accordingly, hanged.
Flies are supposed to be fruitful and multiply...
People tried to set aside a tract of land for flies. We don't know if it worked. The last page of the document was eaten by insects....
You cannot eat the meat of condemned animals.
'I find there's a difference between a gelding and a woman...'
'His entire thesis was 'no.''
'Many attribute the wide-spread anti-clerical movement, rebellion, etc., to Wycliffe's critiques. His supporters disagree...'
Grace: When Christ died, there was an 'excess' of grace left over. The church has access to it and is
'These knights are always chasing after idealized women, and here the woman is so idealized she may not even exist...'
'It's like those geeks who think Star Trek exists for real..'
'There was a group called the Scots. They came from Ireland. You can also call them the Gaels...and then the Scots start calling themselves Scots to describe everyone in the area now called Scotland...The English language spoken in Scotland is now called Scots; it was then called Inglis....'
1066 'The Normons come, and conquer everyone in a massive way..'
on feudal relationships: 'It's kind of like hockey in the old days, and you couldn't choose which team you went to and they got you...'
'And he dies. Heroically, though.'
'Edward II recieves a sound drubbing; he himself barely escapes, because the Scots were busy looting the bodies.'
'If you are stupid, you will be punished.'-A tragic worldview?
Human nature is: material, bodily, mildly perverse, present-oriented, just a little bit pathetic.
He's hiring someone to adore his wife. Somewhat like a singing telegram?
'If you were like Conrad Black, god forbid, and you hired a rockstar...'
'Women are negative. If it sounds negative, it was written by a woman.'
'You guys have very down-to-earth political positions on these romances.'
'I went to bed after reading it and didn't lie awake thinking about it.'
'Alright, we're not all kings and out wives aren't all being taken by fairy people, but we do all have our problems.'
'It's Christian guilt, not real guilt.'
Christian's are all like 'Jew's are physcical. We're so spiritual' = "circumcision of the heart."
'According to the rule, she can't just leap into bed with him and rip his clothes off; that would be uncourteous.'
'In penance, I will wear this magical girdle, which makes me invulnerable.'
Why did he blame it on the woman?
Because he's a man.
'Nature is kind of like an employee of god, right...'
'He's not, like, your average giant guy. He's like a rich giant guy with nice clothing...'
Sir Thomas Malory was prosecuted for raping the same woman twice.
-There cannot be a vacuum.
=God can make a vacuum if he wants to.
'In a funny way, the Church pushed science forward...'
'You can't go five steps in the wilderness in this book without encountering another helpful hermit, with all these servants who will give you food...where did all the wilderness go?
'Not as 'action' as I thought it would be. It's like, 'and I had a dream of a red sparrow and a white sparrow and what does it mean?' and then comes a hermit.
'I'm with Arthur!'-'Hey, so am I!' -'Because superheroes can only be killed by other superheroes in disguise.'
'I was just surprised at how unforgiving god is. You do these little things and you get smited.'
'You get the feeling you should be crossing everyone when you meet them, just to save time.'
'Don't bring your women with you. It's a different kind of quest; we don't have girls on this kind of quest.'
Malory doesn't want it to be sex, but it is.
'What's he wearing? He wraps his mantle around his arm--it was all he was wearing. Just spending time naked with the queen...'
Men are more likely to die for love. Women are willing to take what they can get.
Pursuit of beauty or rampant sexual desire? Could be either.
'...which accounts for a lot of the irrational behaviour that appears in Courtney Love. Courtly love. oops.'
hollowed eyes: sink into the face trying to chase the image into the brain.
love cures:
bathing and drinking wine, preferably in a garden.
distraction, ie trumping up a murder charge so the afflicted must flee the country.
therapeutic intercourse.
love is located in the testicles (an excess of the procreative urge), therefore, "apply a plaster, or a woman, to the testicles."
Best, of course, is to give him/her what (s)he wants.
"oh, that guy is smitten with lovesickness; let's get him!"
'before they tell you, all, blah blah blah hellfire...'
'Call me Jesus.'
'Of course, she has a direct line to god as well, which is very helpful.'
"Damsel, it is a long time since Jesus died."
'On page 66, no less, she describes herself in bed with Christ as her husband, in a very sensual way...'
"You will only masturbate to pictures of Jesus!"
Winter is icumen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.
Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Damm you; Sing: Goddamm.
Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,
So 'gainst the winter's balm.
Sing goddamm, damm, sing goddamm,
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.
--Ezra Pound'When I was talking about Bambi and Godzilla...'
C: What's another word for deviance that doesn't sounds dirty?
H: E, what's another word for deviance?
E: Why can't you use deviance?
C: Because it comes after sexual, and that sounds wrong.
E: Oh. Yeah. What's this about?
C: A religious mystic who had a sort of almost spiritual sex with Jesus. In a way.
E: Oh. I'd call that deviance.
H: Experimentalism...
C: I'm already essentially calling Jesus a polygamist in this essay....
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