{"id":867,"date":"2010-05-12T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2013-07-29T07:01:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T07:01:20","slug":"the-land-of-cokaygne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"The Land of Cokaygne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine my surprise when Anu Garg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsmith.org\/words\/cockaigne.html\">Word of the Day<\/a> today was &#8220;Cockaigne!&#8221; I&#8217;ve spent this week and the better part of last working on an awesome 4-page comic based on an anonymous 14th century poem about said mystical land of earthly pleasures. See below!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img8.imageshack.us\/img8\/7169\/cokaygne1inks.jpg\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img91.imageshack.us\/img91\/4691\/cokaygne2inks.jpg\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img179.imageshack.us\/img179\/2706\/cokaygne3inks.jpg\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img704.imageshack.us\/img704\/4866\/cokaygne4inks.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This is for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumptownunderground.com\/\">Stumptown Underground<\/a>&#8216;s June issue, which has the theme of &#8220;myth\/folk tales\/fairy tales.&#8221; If this submission don&#8217;t get accepted, I&#8217;ll eat my hat! I really busted my patootie on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2005-2006, when I was a senior at Columbia University, I attempted to write a thesis paper on the poetry of the Goliards, semi-mythical wandering, drunken scholars of the later middle ages, probably best known from the <span>Carmina Burana<\/span>. I even learned medieval Latin so I could read their doggerel in the original! But no thesis came of it, and maybe from this comic you can see why. It&#8217;s just a bunch of crazy nonsense! I lost credit from the course and almost didn&#8217;t graduate \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>The text of the poetry portion of the comic was freely edited by me based on the original Middle English and two modern translations, all available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegoldendream.com\/landofcokaygne.htm\">here<\/a>. (WARNING: The sex in the original poem is <span>much<\/span> less consensual than what I&#8217;ve depicted here. Even so, I recommend you give it a read, as there are many beautiful and hilarious parts I had to leave out of the comic for space considerations.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine my surprise when Anu Garg&#8217;s Word of the Day today was &#8220;Cockaigne!&#8221; I&#8217;ve spent this week and the better part of last working on an awesome 4-page comic based on an anonymous 14th century poem about said mystical land of earthly pleasures. See below! This is for Stumptown Underground&#8216;s June issue, which has the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-stumptown-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}