Fools and Jesters

I haven’t blogged in weeks.  I’ve been too busy.  That sounds really nice, especially since I’ve been too busy working on writing.  Yes.  It’s true.  Ta da! Research is fantastic.  Made it through John Southworth’s Fools and Jesters at the English Court and have started William Willeford’s The Fool and His Scepter.  Southworth was...
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My brain is fried.  Really.  I fell asleep at 8:30 last night.  And Enid’s completely lost me.  I finished the book and should probably re-read the conclusion again, but the last few chapters just seemed like gibberish to me.  She would re-tell portions of ridiculous allegorical plays and stories and then not offer any...
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Did you know that in ancient Greece, funny people used to just hang out around the baths, waiting for the popular rich people to come by and invite them to parties?  They’d get a free meal out of it, hang out with some other rich people, and all they had to do was make...
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