My friend and Medieval scholar, Michael Livingston — for whom I named Captain Livingston — has written a post about the language in Shades of Milk and Honey. In it, he translates a few lines of the novel into Old English and Middle English Anyway, at one point Mary and I were talking about voicing and language […]
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I feel guilty because I haven’t been posting much lately, but at the same time, life has sort of narrowed down into things that aren’t very interesting. Or, rather, that aren’t very bloggable especially not after the flurry of props and puppetry posts. Yesterday was fairly low-key, largely because I spent the day hanging out
Oooo! More Chaucer’d treats at Michael Livingston’s. This time he’s done Jay Lake’s Mainspring. Seventene degrees latitude approchynge, Hethor sawe th’Equinoccial Wal for the first time on lyve. I’m not sure why I find this so endlessly fascinating. Even with such short snippets, I’m starting to feel like I can understand Middle English more, like
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Michael Livingston, in addition to being one of my favorite people, also happens to be a scholar of Middle English. I have just finished listening, twice, to his Chaucer’d excerpt of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. In a fit of rage against working on my syllabi for the coming term, I took a snippet from
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SFFreader » This Week’s New Short Fiction ON MY SHELF Prime Codex, edited by Lawrence Schoen and Michael Livingston: I picked this up at CONduit last weekend at a reading by Eric James Stone, who has published multiple stories in places like Analog SF and IGMS. He’s a member of the Codex Writers Group, and
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CRAP! I wrote myself into a corner by not knowing that detail and have been stuck there for two days. If you see or know Michael Livingston, sing his praises, because he just brainstormed me out of it. Hallelujah!
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