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May. 10th, 2010 12:36 pmOne day I would like to follow the route to Compostella as set out by the 12th century tour guide. It would be fun. I could check the good and bad rivers and everything. I would get to Spain through the pass at Roncesvals, which is something I have yearned for since I was eighteen.
In the meantime, I've checked the whole single paragraph I need right now for something entirely different. It now gets put away alongside my Pseudo-Turpin chronicles because it contains a version of said Chronicle and Roland is far, far more important in the pilgrimage guide than William of Orange. This is just wrong. William of Orange was seriously cool and Roland was seriously stupid and full of something (possibly vainglory, possibly something more mundane). Which only goes to show that tourist brochures are not infallible,* even when they are extraordinarily long, a pope's name is attached to them and they are possibly around 800 years old.
*I ought to apologise for this joke, but I'm doing some serious thinking about my research proposal and bad jokes will either emerge here or on the proposal and my supervisor really doesn't need me to add to my sins in that direction.
In the meantime, I've checked the whole single paragraph I need right now for something entirely different. It now gets put away alongside my Pseudo-Turpin chronicles because it contains a version of said Chronicle and Roland is far, far more important in the pilgrimage guide than William of Orange. This is just wrong. William of Orange was seriously cool and Roland was seriously stupid and full of something (possibly vainglory, possibly something more mundane). Which only goes to show that tourist brochures are not infallible,* even when they are extraordinarily long, a pope's name is attached to them and they are possibly around 800 years old.
*I ought to apologise for this joke, but I'm doing some serious thinking about my research proposal and bad jokes will either emerge here or on the proposal and my supervisor really doesn't need me to add to my sins in that direction.