Another supposedly fun thing ...

[Robert Mahnke]

Oh! Oh!  I like mine:

Yet quyl Al-hal-day with Arthur he lenges,
And he made a fare on that fest, for the frekes sake,
With much revel and ryche of the Rounde Table.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (W.W. Norton, 2007), p. 56.

Simon Armitage's translation (on p. 57):

Yet by All Saints' Day he was still at Arthur's side,
and they feasted in the name of their noble knight
with the revels and riches of the Round Table.


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Subject: Another supposedly fun thing ...

1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most
intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"Although if the name is linked to pregnancy, it might suggest ectopic
pregnancy, a dangerous condition where the fertilized egg is lodged in
a fallopian tube, rather than the uterus."

--Patrick Hurley, Pynchon Character Names: A Dictionary (Jefferson,
NC: McFarland, 2008), "Fallopian, Mike (Lot 49)," p. 56