Francine Nicholson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Excuse me, but I posted the bit about the saint wannabe,
quite right; and the Krafters quoted you; and i quoted him.
thus are texts corrupted by repeated re-transmissions.
>and the description of this sort of ordeal appears in the hagiographical
marginalia of Fe/lire Oe/ngusso Ce/li De/.
and other mainstream texts, i'm sure.
i didn't question the popularity of the genre --on the contrary.
submit that even the irish outgrew it, eventually.
question is, *why*?
>At the time it was seen as an admirable exercise of self-restraint.
my point exactly.
christopher
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