bogbean made it. I'm sure she wouldn't mind you using it.
That's lovely, like the mad old crone in Blackadder: BA: Is this the house of the wise woman? MOC: Arrr...that it be... BA: "Yes it is", not "that it be"...I'm not a tourist, you know.
I have always wanted to make a film of Margery Kempe. In Middle English. There are (sort of) precedents -- I'm thinking of Jarman's Sebastiane rather than The Passion of the Christ. I think distant distant past is easier, in some ways, though, esp. largely pre-literate past: you can come up with your own idiom (my preference here would be for a neutralish modern-sounding one in which "She's faking it" would be fine, as long as the mores were otherwise right) because there has to be suspension of disbelief anyway, unless you fancy writing in Visigothic or Sanskrit. When you get into periods for which there are texts available for comparison purposes the possibility for disaster increases exponentially. My personal black beastie is pastiche Austen, which is just not as damn easy as you think it is, people.
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That's lovely, like the mad old crone in Blackadder:
BA: Is this the house of the wise woman?
MOC: Arrr...that it be...
BA: "Yes it is", not "that it be"...I'm not a tourist, you know.
I have always wanted to make a film of Margery Kempe. In Middle English. There are (sort of) precedents -- I'm thinking of Jarman's Sebastiane rather than The Passion of the Christ. I think distant distant past is easier, in some ways, though, esp. largely pre-literate past: you can come up with your own idiom (my preference here would be for a neutralish modern-sounding one in which "She's faking it" would be fine, as long as the mores were otherwise right) because there has to be suspension of disbelief anyway, unless you fancy writing in Visigothic or Sanskrit. When you get into periods for which there are texts available for comparison purposes the possibility for disaster increases exponentially. My personal black beastie is pastiche Austen, which is just not as damn easy as you think it is, people.