Posted on 05/08/2017 6:59:37 PM PDT by rktman
Heh, heh. Very good, sir.
I couldn't help but think of "The Princess Bride" when I saw it.
I tried reading the whole thing once, but the style was too puffy and full of mooshy stuff, so I quit as soon as the queen met up with her boyfriend who wouldnt be her boyfriend even though they luvd each other so much, etc.
Yeah, "l'amour courtois", and that. Dumas did mention in the text that the moral codes were pretty loose in 1623, as compared to his own time. Imagine what he would think of today's mores.
Ugh.
It was actually pretty easy to read aloud. Of course, part of the credit due to that goes to the translator, and some of the rest to his ghostwriters, I mean, "assistants".
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