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highlyeccentric...an allegorical war between the three kings of bad writing: Barbarism, Misspelling, and Allebolus; and three queens of good writing: Diction, Oration, and Meaning. When the war is brought to a close by Lady Rhetoric, the kings and queens are married off and produce offspring.
Sarcasm and Irony are two of seven daughters born of Allegory and "Foreign Language". Allegory is herself the daughter of Allebolus and Figure of Speech, who is the sister of Queen Meaning. What does all of this have to do with anything? Not much. But I think it's definitely pretty awesome to spend your time mapping out which personifications of abstract linguistic concepts got it on to produce Sarcasm.
King Barbarism married "Mixing-up-and-deleting-letters," the sister of Diction and produced fourteen daughters: "Adding-letters-to-the-front-of-words," Rebuke, "Adding-a-syllable-to-a-word," Augerese (no clue), Contractions, "Dropping-the-last-syllable-of-a-word," Ecstasy, "Shortening-a-syllable," and several others more obscure.
King Misspelling married Arranging-Things-Properly, the sister of Oration and produced twenty-two daughters: Summary, "Repeating-a-word-for-rhetorical-effect," and lots of others.
-Carl Pyrdum, of Got Medieval
ed- oh, someone else who thinks being a medievalist is all about the sex!
Sarcasm and Irony are two of seven daughters born of Allegory and "Foreign Language". Allegory is herself the daughter of Allebolus and Figure of Speech, who is the sister of Queen Meaning. What does all of this have to do with anything? Not much. But I think it's definitely pretty awesome to spend your time mapping out which personifications of abstract linguistic concepts got it on to produce Sarcasm.
King Barbarism married "Mixing-up-and-deleting-letters," the sister of Diction and produced fourteen daughters: "Adding-letters-to-the-front-of-words," Rebuke, "Adding-a-syllable-to-a-word," Augerese (no clue), Contractions, "Dropping-the-last-syllable-of-a-word," Ecstasy, "Shortening-a-syllable," and several others more obscure.
King Misspelling married Arranging-Things-Properly, the sister of Oration and produced twenty-two daughters: Summary, "Repeating-a-word-for-rhetorical-effect," and lots of others.
-Carl Pyrdum, of Got Medieval
ed- oh, someone else who thinks being a medievalist is all about the sex!
Did Sarcasm have children? Or was it just an IRONIC trick that she couldn't get laid (!ha siblings!)
Date: 2007-07-03 01:17 pm (UTC)I think i may be interested in the birth of sarcasm mostly for procrastinative (is this a word?) effect.... bloody winter school. Agh!
Love Tess.