Thursday 11 November 2010

I've got a lovely hard folktale motif for you darling

A priest offers to show a pretty young nun the "key to the kingdom of heaven" and seduces her with it. She innocently tells the mother superior, who says, "Why that lying son of Satan; for twenty years he's been telling me it was Gabriel's horn, and I've been blowing it!" (Calif. 1952) This story is of Italian-American provenance, and is unquestionably connected with the folktale motif K1315.1.1, "Seduction by posing as the Angel Gabriel," which Rotunda cites from Bocaccio IV.2, and other novellieri, with further references to Lee and Di Francia on Boccacio's sources. (Motif-Index of the Italian Novella in Prose, 1942, p.102)

G. Legman, Rationale of The Dirty Joke, 8. MARRIAGE V. Oragenitalism 1. FELLATION BY THE BRIDE

Leg man, eh?

Wednesday 10 November 2010

THE DAY OF THE COMING OF THE HERALDS OF THE KING OF WHATWITHWHY

Merrily merrily on they sprang, gaily blithe to all reality's little niggles - for that's all they were really, against nature and the happy things in life, nothing more than little niggles - farting and feasting and fucking their way from great hall to great hall, leaving a trail of rose petals and smiling perversion, and not leaving a single encounter out of their meticulous video diary, which, daily uploaded, was the most popular television show by a long way in this particular parallel universe. The newspapers in the morning were full of gossip about which knight triumphed in the tilt, and the massive 'roast' he hosted after, people in taverns cheered as they saw a slow-motion replay of a dick-shrinking enchantment ministered by the old hag, and peasants downloaded as their ringtone popular minstrels' refrains, or the dashing and cruel young Sir. Thos. Mountfort delivering yet another winning roundelay to a fair maiden, so effective at filling her bosom with the hope of love that she willingly invites him to lay immediate and wasteful siege to her inner keep...