"He [Gottschalk] is a significant witness to the history of the Latin lyric, for his example proves that whenever the personal conditions were present which were propitious to the expression of intimate feeling there was a possibility of lyrical poetry. In this sense the lyric has no continuous history." --F J E Raby, A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages (1934)
"Just a moment, please,
you cuckoo from the mountains.
I want to give you
this message to deliver:
'I am weary of the world.' "
--Mikuni no Machi in: Brocade by Night
Surprising identities of the Argletonians.
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