Thaliarchus

Hedge poet. I watch anime & am often accused of reading.

'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country's countless bells.'

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Today's Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright's one-year anniversary!

The whole damn thing remains free. You can and should try it.
https://t.co/7CxWHS7E71

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In practising critique,
who forges flaws they seek?

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Good night, and good luck.

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Good night, and good luck.

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@MON0EYE To my mind, the 3DCG background elements in Robin-the-show (not Robin-the-gif-from-the-OP) have *not* aged well, unlike the backgrounds in King Gainer.

Open to the idea that SEED is an atypical step down more than Gainer is an atypical step up, though.

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@PaulDeane3 @roseromaunt To come back to Chaucer: there's one verse-form that comes in for a real kicking in the Canterbury Tales, and that Chaucer only ever imitates in mockery, and it's not alliterative verse—it's accentual-syllabic tail-rhyme.

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@PaulDeane3 @roseromaunt (You might know the theory that Gawain was written by someone from the Midlands but *in* London, for Richard II's bodyguard of Cheshire archers… I'm unconvinced, but it matters that someone can make the argument!)

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@PaulDeane3 @roseromaunt Ah, I've remembered the article: https://t.co/KfxXdKkqhm

Probabilistic rather than certain, but it places the Alliterative Morte Arthure for a spell in Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn)—not London, but a large and cosmopolitan East Anglian port, a long way from the North.

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@PaulDeane3 @roseromaunt Granting for the sake of argument that it was religious controversy that prompted the copying of Piers, surely the point is that people in London were reading it (avidly, apparently)--and that would have made AV seem more normal.

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@roseromaunt @PaulDeane3 The idea that alliterative verse truly seemed old and northern to Londoners of Chaucer's generation is hard to square with the existence of an AV poem focused on London (Erkenwald) and the frequent copying of Piers Plowman in London at and after the same time.

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@roseromaunt @PaulDeane3 I'm not sure Chaucer's even making fun of it. The next line has the Parson saying he can't even rhyme very well, and the upshot of the passage is (X.46) that he'll speak in prose (as he then does).

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@tes_star One of the many interesting things about the Orpheus myth is that, from what we can tell, his katabasis originally had a happy ending.

Despite the fact that his failure to retrieve Eurydice often strikes moderns as the most powerful part of the story!

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Good night and good luck, pilots.

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And if you'd rather listen to it instead, there's a VOD for that:
https://t.co/opu7xUuwdZ

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It's out! Read all about Orphaneir, who went to hell and back for love.
https://t.co/mAqFIGBe7Z

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Available for the low, low price of free. Space travel! Terza rima! Heroism! Alliterative verse! It's all in there.