Sh_tty

[Ian Scuffling]

She-it that's funny!  Thanks for yucks.

"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy" --
Nietzsche.  So...
 
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HenryM
 
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Of monroe at mpm.edu
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:05 PM
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Subject: Sh_tty

>From Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to
Shakespeare (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980), Ch. 1, "At the Table of the
Great," pp. 11-73 ...

"As a whole class, the controversial writings of the Catholics and
Protestants alike are, as E.M. Cioran says of early Christian apologetics,
'a series of libels camouflaged as treatises,' but we should not for this
reason discount the personal intensity of [Sir Thomas] More's rhetorical
violence: 'For as long as your reverend paternity will be determined to tell
these shameless lies, others will be permitted, on behalf of his English
majesty, to throw back into your paternity's shitty mouth, truly the
shit-pool of all shit, all the muck and shit which your damnable
rottenenness has vomited up, and to empty out all the sewers and privies
onto your crown.'" (p. 65)

Quoting ...

More, Sir Thomas.  Responsio ad Lutherum.  Ed. John M. Headley.
   Trans. Sister Scholastica Mandeville.  Complete Works 5:1.
   New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1969.  305-7

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/viewbook.asp?isbn=0300011237 

Having done hard time in both Catholic grade and high school, I just gotta
ask, Sister Scolastica, what's Latin for "shitty"?  Okay ...

> Of course you are free to do or not do whatever you want, but nobody
> has called the article "shitty" ...