Making Light :: Heywood :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004873.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:56:26 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 Heywood Dept. of Our Ancestors Were Gullible about Religion, Not; from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, in re... Dept. of Our Ancestors Were Gullible about Religion, Not; from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, in re... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004873.html Heywood -- comment #1 from rbrazile comment from rbrazile on 9.Mar.04

Sounds like Twain to me.

Posted March 9, 2004 3:39 PM by rbrazile

 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004873.html#42170 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004873.html#42170 Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:39:31 -0500 Heywood -- comment #2 from James D. Macdonald comment from James D. Macdonald on 10.Mar.04

For your dining and dancing pleasure, the full text of Johan Johan, attributed to Heywood, appears here.

There aren't any relics, but there are three blessed miracles.

Posted March 10, 2004 10:49 AM by James D. Macdonald

 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004873.html#42246 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004873.html#42246 Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:49:20 -0500 Heywood -- comment #3 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 10.Mar.04

Okay, that was funny. Thank you, Jim. I'll bet the bit with the candle got a lot of laughs.

Posted March 10, 2004 1:17 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004873.html#42262 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004873.html#42262 Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:17:04 -0500 Heywood -- comment #4 from jo. comment from jo. on 10.Mar.04

John-John is hilarious, exploding bucket and all.
The bucket is also a dirty joke, in case you didn't pick that up.

But the anti-clerical satire is pretty standard for the 16th century, and even for the medievals: similar attitudes turn up in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. It develops into anti-catholic satire once the English break away from the church.

It's not skepticism about *religion* so much as skepticism about *hucksters* -- very like Twain.

Posted March 10, 2004 4:56 PM by jo.

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