The inimitable Iowahawk apologizes to Chaucer, but goes after the Archbishop of Canterbury with gleeful abandon. Here's how it begins:
Heere Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Hatte.1 Whan in Februar, withe hise global warmynge
2 Midst unseasonabyl rain and stormynge
3 Gaia in hyr heat encourages
4 Englande folke to goon pilgrimages.
5 Frome everiches farme and shire
6 Frome London Towne and Lancanshire
7 The pilgryms toward Canterbury wended
8 Wyth fyve weke holiday leave extended
9 In hybryd Prius and Subaru
10 Off the Boughton Bypasse, east on M2.
11 Fouer and Twyntie theye came to seke
12 The Arche-Bishop, wyse and meke13 Labouryte and hippye, Gaye and Greene
14 Anti-warre and libertyne
15 All sondry folke urbayne and progressyve
16 Vexed by Musselmans aggressyve.
17 Hie and thither to the Arche-Bishop's manse
18 The pilgryms ryde and fynde perchance
19 The hooly Bishop takynge tea
20 Whilste watching himselfe on BBC.
It goes on like this for 61 more verses, and gets funnier and funnier. Absolutely brilliant satire! (Though in parts a tad too ribald for this blog's audience). This, I believe, is the final word on the ridiculous Rowan mess (which of course won't stop me from blogging on the thing until the eschaton is immanentized).
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LOL.
Rod, thank you! I haven't laughed this hard in weeks, and I'm only up to line 10.
Ahh, a stroke of genius.
Whether you agree with him or not, that's one funny parody.
I happen to agree, mostly...
Hysterical, and masterfully written. Well done!
Hysterical, and all too true. BTW, I read the lengthy article Spengler alluded to on the thread below -- Paul Berman's New Republic Online piece about Tariq Ramadan. It's long but well worth reading all the way too the end.
One wonders whether people like Rowan Williams and Western jouranlists would have granted the same deference to Mussolini's grandson, Stalin's grandson, or Franco's grandson, particularly if those hypothetical individuals were speaking up in favor of their grandpa's legacy in similar fashion to the way that Ramadan speaks up for Hassan al-Banna.
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