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I just discovered this thread yesterday; thanks for starting it Mollie, and thanks also to all those who've contributed.

I don't know if this has been posted here before, but I do think the Mediaeval Baebes' "Circle of the Lustful" is a lovely image of the erotica of reading...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAYrP1wL7is

And here's the medieval Italian with translation...

Noi leggiavamo un giorno diletto
Di Lancialotto come amor lo strinse
Soli eravamo e sanza alcun sospetto
Per più fiate li occhi ci sospinse
Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso
Ma soso un punto fu quel che ci vinse

Quando leggemmo il disïato riso
Esser basciato da cotanto amante
Questi, che mai da me non fia divisio
La bocco mi bascio tutto tremante
Galeotto fu 'l libro e chi lo scrisse
Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante

Mentre che l'undo spirto questo disse
L'altro piangëa sì che di pietade
To venni men così com' io morisse
E caddi come corpo morto cade

we were reading one day for pleasure
of lancelot how love beset him
we were alone and without any suspicion
many times the reading drove our eyes together
and turned out faces pale but one point alone
was the one that overpowered us

when we read that the yearned-for smile
was kissed by so great a lover
he who will never be separated from me
kissed my mouth all trembling
galeotto was the book and he who wrote it
that day we read there no further

while one spirit said this
the other was weeping so that for pity
i fainted as if i were dying
and i fell as a dead body falls
 
I just discovered this thread yesterday; thanks for starting it Mollie, and thanks also to all those who've contributed.

I don't know if this has been posted here before, but I do think the Mediaeval Baebes' "Circle of the Lustful" is a lovely image of the erotica of reading...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAYrP1wL7is

And here's the medieval Italian with translation...

Noi leggiavamo un giorno diletto
Di Lancialotto come amor lo strinse
Soli eravamo e sanza alcun sospetto
Per più fiate li occhi ci sospinse
Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso
Ma soso un punto fu quel che ci vinse

Quando leggemmo il disïato riso
Esser basciato da cotanto amante
Questi, che mai da me non fia divisio
La bocco mi bascio tutto tremante
Galeotto fu 'l libro e chi lo scrisse
Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante

Mentre che l'undo spirto questo disse
L'altro piangëa sì che di pietade
To venni men così com' io morisse
E caddi come corpo morto cade

we were reading one day for pleasure
of lancelot how love beset him
we were alone and without any suspicion
many times the reading drove our eyes together
and turned out faces pale but one point alone
was the one that overpowered us

when we read that the yearned-for smile
was kissed by so great a lover
he who will never be separated from me
kissed my mouth all trembling
galeotto was the book and he who wrote it
that day we read there no further

while one spirit said this
the other was weeping so that for pity
i fainted as if i were dying
and i fell as a dead body falls

Hello :) and thank you for this^
They ring a bell for something else I know but I can't remember what.


:kiss: misterB.

(hope not, can't stand the stuff, tea please!!)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5176/5593861153_b400514bfb_b.jpg

heheh...sure we're not.

*kissies to the Book Mistress*

i love mermaids.

smooches back, Twerkster :heart:
 
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
 
Those are exactly the words I do say. Thank the powers above for a Kindle and a Nook or we'd have nearly a 1000 more books with no place to put them. I do take exception to one point, I do not now nor have I ever owned or wore a WoW tee shirt. (LOL)

M

Now I know what to get you for Christmas! :cattail:
 
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