Comments: WORD OF THE DAY.

I like the idea of swearing at your prick-louse tailor! These days we get all misty-eyed and nostalgic at the very idea of even having a tailor....

No, no quarrels about bargain books with Nina. (I loved "She wants to paint the living room yellow. I have not the words.") After we broke up she even translated my Dutch page, and is still so sweet, I rather wonder why we didn't marry....

Posted by mark at January 26, 2003 03:16 PM

Hand up, who can name the fantasy published in 1926 which quotes from the above-mentioned Lament?

Posted by Anton Sherwood at January 27, 2003 04:12 AM

I'm guessing it's something by James Branch Cabell, but don't keep us in suspense... what was it?

Posted by language hat at January 27, 2003 09:41 PM

William Dunbar! Sorry, just a tiny squeak of happiness.

Posted by Tinka at January 28, 2003 08:08 AM

Does anyone know where i can get a copy of Dunbar's "Ane Pleasant Satyre of Thrie Estaits"?

Posted by Ginnie at October 20, 2004 02:45 PM

Well, it's part of the LETRS database, accessible here -- if you can get access (through a library?). But it's not by Dunbar, it's by David Lindsay, or Lyndesay. If you want an actual copy of the book, you're probably out of luck.

Posted by language hat at October 20, 2004 08:08 PM

Oops, sorry about the two years of suspense: E.R.Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros puts a number of verses from the ~16th c. into the mouths of his warring Mercurians, and identifies them more properly in an appendix.

Posted by Anton Sherwood at May 5, 2005 12:56 AM

Whew. I can finally release that breath.

Posted by language hat at May 5, 2005 09:06 AM