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Jan. 31st, 2011 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardI have got to stop falling asleep in my Age of Reformation class -- maybe I'll start getting black tea from PJ's before class, so at least I'm somewhat more caffeinated than green tea alone will get me. I feel really bad about it, too, because it's interesting! Really! Today I jerked back to full wakefulness when my professor started talking about the Borgias.
I don't understand how everyone else in the class doesn't find what we're being lectured on hilarious. I'm cracking up, or trying not to do so too loudly, anyway, and everyone else looks very very solemn, and guys, we are talking about fifty naked courtesans crawling around on the floor of the papal palace picking up chestnuts and Rodrigo, Cesare, and Lucrezia Borgia keeping a tally of how many prostitutes each bishop and cardinal fucks. HOW IS THIS NOT HILARIOUS? Why am I the only one grinning?
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Happy-making things: today I finally took photos of my TTL Mystery Socks and my in-progress Winnow sock (both Ravelry links). It makes me feel accomplished!
I don't understand how everyone else in the class doesn't find what we're being lectured on hilarious. I'm cracking up, or trying not to do so too loudly, anyway, and everyone else looks very very solemn, and guys, we are talking about fifty naked courtesans crawling around on the floor of the papal palace picking up chestnuts and Rodrigo, Cesare, and Lucrezia Borgia keeping a tally of how many prostitutes each bishop and cardinal fucks. HOW IS THIS NOT HILARIOUS? Why am I the only one grinning?
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Happy-making things: today I finally took photos of my TTL Mystery Socks and my in-progress Winnow sock (both Ravelry links). It makes me feel accomplished!
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Date: 2011-02-01 12:57 am (UTC)This is one problem with historians, I've found; they tend to be a little stodgy, or think they should be.
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:14 am (UTC)I think I got spoiled with my classics professors; the ones I've had are all aware that what they're teaching us is hilarious if you tell the story right. Which I think my Reformation prof was aware of, but, uh, he's not the best lecturer I've ever had. But I can't believe no one else in the class even cracked a smile! NAKED PROSTITUTES IN THE PAPAL PALACE, GUYS. How is that not amazing?
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:18 am (UTC)As I recall, William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire has a good deal of Renaissance hilarity, as well as (as you may expect) an axe to grind against the middle ages.
The Borgias > barrel of monkeys in terms of fun, IJS.
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:32 am (UTC)Oooh, I think my dad has that one.
The Borgias! I am really excited to read up on them. (Though not for class, alas, and it looks like a lot of the books on them are already out of the library.)
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Date: 2011-02-01 09:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-01 02:51 pm (UTC)Chances that Showtime will put this in the series: high, probably.