I had a glass of white wine with my dinner (mushroom burger, very tasty), and I feel ridiculously fuzzy now. I’m going to post nonetheless, dammit, because I’ve been meaning to ever since I came across this link in my RSS reader:<\/p>\n
Knight v Snail<\/a>, from the British Library medieval manuscripts blog. I think this quote from the post sums it all up: <\/p>\n one of our post-medieval colleagues noticed a painting of a knight engaging in combat with a snail. […] This struck him as odd, which struck the medievalists in the group as odd; surely everyone has seen this sort of thing before, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That, my friends, is medieval marginal art for ya. Knights versus snails is only a part of the awesomely weird shit going on in the borders of Serious Medieval Works. (See Got Medieval’s<\/a> post on knights and snails, and check out his marginalia category<\/a> for some amazing entertainment.)<\/p>\n Anyway, what does all this manuscript geekery have to do with writing? Currently, this: one of the stories I’m currently working on is inspired by medieval knight-v-snail marginalia. So, of course I had to link the BL blog post, since I think everyone should be educated on this intriguing phenomenon. <\/p>\n Sadly, I’ve been too busy and stressed out to work on the snail story for the past week or so – but this weekend will bring with it some free time for editing. Huzzah! I’d also like to get some poems submitted.<\/p>\n (I need to get back into the writing loop properly, but a chronic lack of sleep is gnawing at my energy resources rather too persistently to let writing happen. Thus, I will now finish off this blog post and go to bed early.) <\/p>\n *<\/p>\n PS: If you haven’t donated to the Strange Horizons<\/em> fund drive<\/a>, there’s still five days to go! Help SH get another year of awesome stuff. <\/p>\n