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Paper Panic Time!
Apr. 18th, 2005 01:04 amYes, I haven't updated in a while. Been super stressed over these damned research papers I'm supposed to be researching. But I find I suck at research. Pretty humbling experience, really. But I am reading some very interesting stuff that will be of no use to me at all. Came across this random tidbit in The Journal of Thomas Baker, English Consul to Tripoli from 1677 to 1685 (contained in Piracy and Diplomacy by C.R. Pennell):
From 7th October 1681:
"This day a Turk received 500 Drubbs upon his Buttocks not for having comitted the Act of Sodomie with a Boy, But for that, after having soe done, hee threw him over the Towne Wall, whereby he brake both his Leggs."
Um, right.... so how about those Mets? As the majority of this journal is devoted to recording the comings and goings of the various naval and merchant ships in the area this entry comes even more out of the blue than you may have suspected. It's hard to know what to say about it, really. And then, for further proofe that the continued reading of this journal will well and truley spoile my spellyng forever:
From 11th February 1680:
"...in honor to her Comandr. Cara Villy Rais (my particular friend) who died 4 dayes since of an Apoplexie, say some, But I am of ye opinion, a Surfeit (by taking too many drams of ye Bottle) did his businesse. And soe farewell to an honest, drunken fellow, both; to my own knowledge."
Remind me to have that engraved on my tombstone! ('ye' by the way, is supposed to be 'y' with a superscript 'e' so it looks even weirder in print. Not sure how to code superscripts in html)
Soe that's it for now. I've started a Severus/Remus story that is really quite nasty to poore Remus, but haven't finished it yet with all this stuff due soon. Not sure if I like it, either. I have the hardest time trying to get those two together in a healthy fashion. Or even in a not-so-healthy-but-at-least-not-violent fashion. Oh well. There are others that are very good at that and I am sincerely grateful. (Or is it graytefull?)
From 7th October 1681:
"This day a Turk received 500 Drubbs upon his Buttocks not for having comitted the Act of Sodomie with a Boy, But for that, after having soe done, hee threw him over the Towne Wall, whereby he brake both his Leggs."
Um, right.... so how about those Mets? As the majority of this journal is devoted to recording the comings and goings of the various naval and merchant ships in the area this entry comes even more out of the blue than you may have suspected. It's hard to know what to say about it, really. And then, for further proofe that the continued reading of this journal will well and truley spoile my spellyng forever:
From 11th February 1680:
"...in honor to her Comandr. Cara Villy Rais (my particular friend) who died 4 dayes since of an Apoplexie, say some, But I am of ye opinion, a Surfeit (by taking too many drams of ye Bottle) did his businesse. And soe farewell to an honest, drunken fellow, both; to my own knowledge."
Remind me to have that engraved on my tombstone! ('ye' by the way, is supposed to be 'y' with a superscript 'e' so it looks even weirder in print. Not sure how to code superscripts in html)
Soe that's it for now. I've started a Severus/Remus story that is really quite nasty to poore Remus, but haven't finished it yet with all this stuff due soon. Not sure if I like it, either. I have the hardest time trying to get those two together in a healthy fashion. Or even in a not-so-healthy-but-at-least-not-violent fashion. Oh well. There are others that are very good at that and I am sincerely grateful. (Or is it graytefull?)
