To do before Friday evening

[tree_and_leaf]

*Finish organising word nets for section of thesis
- on a related note, work out why, exactly, wordle isn't working for my computer, and fix it (I do actually have a semi-legitimate academic use for this, it's not just playing!)
*Trail out to teacher training college, extract interesting sounding article from volume of feminist theology (and how much do I hate the local library policy of not duplicating holdings across institutions? It's one thing not buying several copies of volumes for department libraries down the hall from each other, but when you need to travel half an hour by tram to use the library of a university you're not even a member of...)
* Re-wax Grönland jacket and hat
* Give brief presentation on Barlaam and Josephaat manuscript; explain how the Buddha ended up becoming a Christian saint.
* Wash Scout uniform and sleeping bag inner
* Book flight home
* Work out what I did with those blank CDs, and burn some files
* Cancel Spiegel (which has had some headdeskily daft articles recently, anyway, including the latest Batshit Insane Theory that Goethe was having an affair with Anna Amalia rather than Charlotte von Stein†, cancel internet contract
* Sharpen knife
* Sort out tent issue, given that I now can't borrow the one I was going to
* Attempt to prevent assassination of Charidisch prince (OK, this is an RPG goal rather than a real one)

... I have the strong feeling I've forgotten something


† Because C von S wasn't intellekshul enough, apparently. I would counter (a) Goethe seems to have had a habit of wanting people to show off to (b) C v S may not have been as intellectual as Anna Amalia, but the evidence of his wife suggests that Goethe didn't primarily go for academic competence in a woman (c) assuming he'd dumped the Dowager Duchess to run off to Rome, how likely is it that he'd have been allowed back to Weimar on rather improved terms?

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

Yep, dead on!

Oddly enough, the story is also the source of the 'three caskets' motif from the Merchant of Venice, although England and Scotland are the only western European countries where the story didn't really catch on (there's even a saga version).

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I'd not heard of it either - a fascinating Christianization.

[tree_and_leaf]

I didn't either, until relatively recently. It's extremely obscure for something so fascinating!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You just wait till I prove the connection between Ferdawsi's Book of Kings and Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain. And I am not kidding: it is there. It's a bloody wonder nobody noticed - I know that Celticists and Medieval Latinists don't often trouble their heads with Persian literature - or vice versa - but crikey, Indo-Europeanists at least ought to be a bit quicker on the uptake!

[tree_and_leaf]

That would be quite something! (I must admit I don't actually know any Indo-Europeanists; they seem to be a dying breed, at least around here.)