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Speaking of sex farce narrative verse, Ninja Replacement Scores of Canterbury Tales, continuing report:
Chaucer's Tale II: Melibee's Revenge:* This is the sort of story I'd say they all need to be ninjas and be done with it, but really only Prudence does -- if she defends herself and Sophie, not only do we get a cool action scene, but there's no pretext for lengthy war debates. A win/win all around. NRS = 1.
Monk's Tale: I think each guy should be killed by a ninja, instead of his supposed fate. Except Adam, who's got enough tsuris. And arguably Judith already is a ninja. But the rest, yeah. NRS = 14 + a hearty "Thank you!" to the Knight.
Nuns' Priest's Tale: Ninjas ∉ beast fables. NRS = 0.
Wife's Tale of Bath: Bachelor Knight** as ninja would ruin it. Loathly Lady as ninja would be demented, and not in a cracktastic anime way. NRS = 0.
Friar's Tale: Ninjas ∉ bargain with the Devil stories. NRS = 0.
Summoner's Tale: Ninjas are not the way to improve this one. Though they might make it memorable -- seriously, aside from that it has a friar and a fart, two days later I couldn't recall a thing. The way to improve it is add more funny. NRS = 0.
Previous reports: 1, 2, 3
* Short shameful confession 1: I resorted to a translation to get through this one.
** Short shameful confession 2: My brain is convinced that he's Gawain, giving me a surprise every time I read this.
---L.
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Date: 17 April 2007 12:39 am (UTC)(or at least with Reepicheep)
I've been known to make the same mistake with Gawain - it comes of reading tales that are identical in all but name of character. This is a strong argument for not borrowing too closely. Give your tale lots and lots of distinguishing features. Also don't make your tale Arthurian or Arthurian-like cos everyone will roll it into the Arthurian mess in their minds sure as holy grails are late additions to the corpus. If i write more Arthuriana, for instance, my holy grail will be fish dish and be an ancient pagan display of fish-hunting prowess. Everyone will be angry at me, but they won't confuse my story with anyone else's.
Where are the ancient displays of frog-hunting prowess?
Date: 17 April 2007 02:01 am (UTC)I don't think you can have a ninja in a beast fable without getting a moving genre violation worth six points against your artistic license.
---L.
Re: Where are the ancient displays of frog-hunting prowess?
Date: 17 April 2007 02:17 am (UTC)And my brain is in another world entirely today, but I can't help wondering if the Gawain you want is one of the Middle English ones. Check the Auchinleck manuscript stories first, I would think. (I feel a bit guilty cos normally I know this stuff, but today I really am working on other things.)
If it's a Middle English text the TEAMS website (linked with teh Camelot project) would have it. Don't go there though, because there are so many wonderful poems on the site, just waiting for ninja analysis.
Reepicheep is very Dumas
Date: 17 April 2007 02:49 am (UTC)---L.
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Date: 20 April 2007 06:45 am (UTC)Your brain, by the way, has quite a good reason to think that the knight in the Wife of Bath's tale is Gawain. The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/ragnfrm.htm) is another variant of the same narrative.
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Date: 20 April 2007 02:20 pm (UTC)Certes, you may friend me. Not that you need permission, but anyone who reads Chaucer's blog is most welcome.
---L.