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Jan. 25th, 2005 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusWell, I finished Beautiful Losers. And I have to say that I am such a geek that my first thought on reading about the Danish Vibrator (which achieves sentience and swims to freedom) was that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where Data has to defend his personhood:
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL: "DV is a vibrator. Have him report to Captain Maddox for, uh, study."
Still, I have to admit the novel did grow on me by the end. I just can't hate a novel where the main character goes feral, which is a good thing, since it tends to happen a lot in Canadian literature.
Now I'm back to studying Medieval literature, and I do have to say that I find John Gower's Vox Clamantis to be fascinating, if only from a psychological standpoint.
Talking to knights about the dangers of beautiful women, Gower describes beautiful women just so that his readers will know one when they see one -- sort of like a field guide. Thing is, not only does have to quote some other author (he apparently doesn't know what a beautiful woman looks like himself), but he uses that author's description of beautiful men, with a few slight alterations.
John Gower's closet must have been an interesting place to be.
"We ar herë, we ar bæddel, bicomë habitué!"
(Official slogan of the London Pride Pride, AD 1393)
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL: "DV is a vibrator. Have him report to Captain Maddox for, uh, study."
Still, I have to admit the novel did grow on me by the end. I just can't hate a novel where the main character goes feral, which is a good thing, since it tends to happen a lot in Canadian literature.
Now I'm back to studying Medieval literature, and I do have to say that I find John Gower's Vox Clamantis to be fascinating, if only from a psychological standpoint.
Talking to knights about the dangers of beautiful women, Gower describes beautiful women just so that his readers will know one when they see one -- sort of like a field guide. Thing is, not only does have to quote some other author (he apparently doesn't know what a beautiful woman looks like himself), but he uses that author's description of beautiful men, with a few slight alterations.
John Gower's closet must have been an interesting place to be.
"We ar herë, we ar bæddel, bicomë habitué!"
(Official slogan of the London Pride Pride, AD 1393)
