"thru the sacred rays of sexiness/No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer/will dare not soil her"

[larryhammer]

Is it wrong of me to read Comus ll.418-21:

I mean that too, but yet a hidden strength,
Which, if Heaven gave it, may be termed her own:
'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity:
She that has that is clad in cómplete steel

as Milton describing an actual steel chastity belt?

I mean, I know it's wrong to want to replace all the masque's instances of "chastity" with "sexiness" (alas, "erotic skills" does not fit the meter) and rewrite the last third to have the Lady escape Comus's clutches of her own agency using same, with as much smexing up as the staging can handle. Tempting, especially given lines like "the sun-clad power of chastity nakedness" (782) -- but still Wrong like a Ron/Bellatrix WAFF fic.

But the belt -- is that wrong?

---L.

Comments

[jennifergale.livejournal.com]

but still Wrong like a Ron/Bellatrix WAFF fic

Oh noes. :scrubs brain:

Moving on!

Honestly, that would be my first thought too, despite every context given before. Steel + Chastity = Belt

[larryhammer]

Like I said, Wrong. I am now secretly afraid that someone is going to invoke Rule 34 and point me to examples of Ron/Bellatrix WAFF fic.

I gotta wonder whether Milton intended that misreading.

---L.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Comus would be indisputably improved by more sexiness, and also ninjas.

[larryhammer]

Or even -- dare I say it? -- sexy ninjas?

---L.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I guess we could start by replacing "Lady" with "Ninja" but possibly "Brother" might be better. Perhaps replacing "Lady" with "Vampire" would be better, with the Brothers becoming Ninjas?

Someone should give you control of a high school drama department, no question.