It's All Over, Folks...
I have substantively (though not completely; revisions live on) finished my all-out, drop-dead, bring-on-the-coffee-and-3-AM-schedule, study of Milton's Paradise Lost.
Unfortunately, the effects are lingering...
Scene: Christy, snapping under the influence of too many late nights, too much Milton, and too many caffeine headaches, gets into a bargaining war with the Starbucks barista on her last night of work on Paradise Lost...
"We are not in a Mexican market and I will not bargain for six black-bottom cupcakes when I only want one..." Christy to the Starbucks barista
"Well, we're getting more and more European all the time..." - the barista
"Europe is that way and Mexico is that way.... under the floor, I think." - Christy, pointing
"I think.... hmm... no, I guess Europe is that way." - the barista
"I'm right? Wow." - Christy
"Now about these cupcakes" - the barista
"No. Just ring up the peppermint mocha and one cupcake," - Christy, handing over her card
"This doesn't even look like you! Now look, about the cupcakes" - the barista, peering at the card
"That picture was taken a long time ago and you just ring it up." - Christy
::meanwhile Brittainy stands by, laughing silently::
Scene: Christy, attempting to write "Renaissance Frameworks" under the influence of far too many late nights and too much Milton.
"'All this happened between 1274 and 1610, together with other events hardly worth mentioning, such as the birth of writers like Chaucer, Boccaccio, Spenser, Cervantes, Sidney, Tasso, Shakespeare, De Vega, Ariosto, Boiardo, Marlowe....' do you think that's too.... something?" - Christy
“And then… and then Athena springs fully formed from Petrarch’s head… like Sin springing from Satan’s head in Paradise Lost, only this time it’s the Renaissance springing from Petrarch’s head as he begins the recovery of Athenian literature, and Athena is a sleeping beauty and he wakes her, and then she’s a captive in the North under the English Renaissance and turns all golden for Golden Poetry and becomes a Shepherdess because of the pastoral mode, and then…” – Christy, babbling about “Renaissance Frameworks”
“Oh dear…” – Brittainy
“I’m trying to make this exciting!” - Christy
Unfortunately, the effects are lingering...
Scene: Christy, snapping under the influence of too many late nights, too much Milton, and too many caffeine headaches, gets into a bargaining war with the Starbucks barista on her last night of work on Paradise Lost...
"We are not in a Mexican market and I will not bargain for six black-bottom cupcakes when I only want one..." Christy to the Starbucks barista
"Well, we're getting more and more European all the time..." - the barista
"Europe is that way and Mexico is that way.... under the floor, I think." - Christy, pointing
"I think.... hmm... no, I guess Europe is that way." - the barista
"I'm right? Wow." - Christy
"Now about these cupcakes" - the barista
"No. Just ring up the peppermint mocha and one cupcake," - Christy, handing over her card
"This doesn't even look like you! Now look, about the cupcakes" - the barista, peering at the card
"That picture was taken a long time ago and you just ring it up." - Christy
::meanwhile Brittainy stands by, laughing silently::
Scene: Christy, attempting to write "Renaissance Frameworks" under the influence of far too many late nights and too much Milton.
"'All this happened between 1274 and 1610, together with other events hardly worth mentioning, such as the birth of writers like Chaucer, Boccaccio, Spenser, Cervantes, Sidney, Tasso, Shakespeare, De Vega, Ariosto, Boiardo, Marlowe....' do you think that's too.... something?" - Christy
“And then… and then Athena springs fully formed from Petrarch’s head… like Sin springing from Satan’s head in Paradise Lost, only this time it’s the Renaissance springing from Petrarch’s head as he begins the recovery of Athenian literature, and Athena is a sleeping beauty and he wakes her, and then she’s a captive in the North under the English Renaissance and turns all golden for Golden Poetry and becomes a Shepherdess because of the pastoral mode, and then…” – Christy, babbling about “Renaissance Frameworks”
“Oh dear…” – Brittainy
“I’m trying to make this exciting!” - Christy
posted by Praelucor at 4:57 PM
1 Comments:
Been praying for you, dear. I'm so glad you made it through that tough stretch.
Can't wait to see you down here next semester! Life still feels utterly alien at times, but things are slowly improving.
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