I am a HALF PAGE short on this essay. Just need to come up with another body paragraph, but I'm pooped. Four hours spent writing, thinking, and petting the dog are too many
This phrase is used at least twice in the Decameron:
In Day 2 Story 9, when the merchants at the beginning of the story are boasting of their infidelity to their wives and justifying themselves by claiming their wives are equally unfaithful to them:
“I cannot answer for my wife; but for myself ...
> Wilt thou remain here to be this man's harlot, and to live in mortal sin, rather than live with me at Pisa as my wife? > And if now I live in mortar sin, I will ever abide there until it be pestle sin: concern yourself no further on my account.
Gotta wonder how that pun worked in the original Italian.
I hadn't realised how much of that there is in the Decameron. The Day 1 stories were pretty tame, but Day 2 got a lot more suggestive and even sexually explicit in some of the stories.
Even the crescent thing flew right over my head. I mentioned the possibility of it being a euphemism just as an afterthought in my question.
I read this book about 10 years ago in elementary. I can’t seem to remember the name or author, what I do remember is that it was the fist book in a series. It starts off with kids playing by a tree and tree and then one of them goes down a well to find a money printer he also finds a nugget of g...
This phrase is used at least twice in the Decameron:
In Day 2 Story 9, when the merchants at the beginning of the story are boasting of their infidelity to their wives and justifying themselves by claiming their wives are equally unfaithful to them:
“I cannot answer for my wife; but for myself ...
