tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-913609798232369293.post8860785201487933314..comments2023-11-09T01:11:09.516-08:00Comments on Europrogocontestovision: Hellmouth MunchingAdam Roberts Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10001572970456425902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-913609798232369293.post-35119570497573347162009-04-08T10:20:00.000-07:002009-04-08T10:20:00.000-07:00Quite so! Oddly enough, while idly leafing through...Quite so! Oddly enough, while idly leafing through my dog-eared copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain this very morning, I cam across a passage which is proof-positive of your thesis.<BR/><BR/>The G Man's prose style is usually quite sedate, even narcoleptic, employing a demi-dreary stock vocabulary of actions & tropes but whilst describing the demise of King Morvidus at the hands of an Irish sea-monster in his usual deadpan drone, Geoff lets this slip out of his medieval subconscious:<BR/><BR/>" … he (Morvidus) went to meet the monster & fought with her single-handed. When he had used all his weapons against her without effect, she rushed at him with her jaws wide open and swallowed him up as though he had been a tiny fish."<BR/><BR/>Gulp! Yow! Zowie!Mahendra Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15308770582240496910noreply@blogger.com