"A Black and White Violet Summer Sky..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Reproduced from my FaceBook, but:

......I am doing research for a paper on chivalric codes and courtly love right now, and I just read this line: "Chapter 1, a prelude of sorts, traces the brief history of Parzifal's penis, from its debut in Wolfram's Parzival, through its return engagement in Albrecht's Jungerer Titurel, to its surprising failure to make an appearance in the Rappoltsteiner Parzifal". WHAT. WHAT. I don't even--WHAT.

I mean, admittedly it is a book about eroticism in chivalric literature, but-- OH MY HEAD.

Source.

Edit: SAME SOURCE contains a reference to Gawain dying of laughter at finding out about Some Guy's castration. Oh, Gawain. <3 Stay classy.

Edit 2: Son of Edit: EVEN BETTER. a different source, on the subject of chivalry towards women: "Examples of knightly police action on behalf of women include killing a serial rapist (Book VI, chapter 5. Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur(London: Penguin, 1969))". YESSS. Knightly police action.

Comments

[little-lady-d.livejournal.com]

i like how it sounds like the penis is completely detached from percy. percy's got his own history, but his penis is off doing something else. let's follow it!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I know, right? That's the best part.

[raanve]

This paper sounds like it may be awesome, Y/Y?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

No. No, it won't be. XD

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grayswandir_/]

the brief history of Parzifal's penis

Wow. XD

"Examples of knightly police action on behalf of women include killing a serial rapist (Book VI, chapter 5. Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur(London: Penguin, 1969))".

Oh, hey, we read about that in my last English Lit class. I think the editor mentioned it in an introduction to Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale," in which a knight rapes a woman, and Arthur's court wants to put him to death by beheading, till Guinevere intercedes and then the whole Chaucer-y tale happens. I remember being pretty surprised by that. I mean, okay, the guy is supposed to be a knight, and obviously that means no rape, but -- instant beheading? Really?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

i LOVE my fandom.

Really? I think it makes perfect sense in the scheme of chivalric literature. People get put to death for much smaller things (in Erec and Enide, a knight nearly gets killed because his dwarf whips Guenever's maid).

[zero_pixel_count]

RE: edit 2: what makes that even better is that probably!Malory was accused of rape... (also burglary, sheep rustling and attempting to ambush the Duke of Buckingham, which is one hell of a rap sheet really and will never not be funny in fact there is someone in this house who may not know that I must go tell them)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

...I read 'burglary, sheep rustling' as 'sheep buggery', just so you know. Thanks a lot. XD

[zero_pixel_count]

*tonguecheek* no, I think they established in the 18th century that he probably wasn't welsh... *runs away quickly*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

XD XD XD I am three-quarters Scottish and we always make that joke about us.

[zero_pixel_count]

Heh. So you aren't descended from the lot that were kicked out in favour of the sheep, then? XD

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I guess not!

[pincerna.livejournal.com]

okay, I just wanted to un-lurk myself to tell you that this is utterly hilarious (percival's penis omg I will never stop laughing) and made me feel better after my shitty week. <3

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Yay! I am glad. This is so ridiculous. SO RIDICULOUS.