The drake, destroyer of his own kind

From: julianlord <julian.lord_at_05ruArCuM5XWRnEsze5IjeuhxyLZ6nJUwW1wkgPf9pT3sa12--FCUfBTmEKsmz2x>
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:02:55 -0000


I've been reading the (excellent) Riverside edition of Chaucer, and came across this interesting line in the "Parliament of Fowls", which is part of a long list of birds and their epithets.

It's interesting, because the Parliament of Fowls is about Love, and the epithets are all related to various forms of avian love life --- and in the accompanying textual note, it seems that drakes were considered in the literature of the time to have such an energetic sex-drive that they tended to kill their partners during sex.

Flash forward to a Freudian take on how this would affect the psychology of Gloranthan male ducks who did this ; might it not explain why there are so many crazed, bitter, lonely, oft-times Humakti male ducks wandering 'round Dragon Pass ?

Not to mention life in the Nest, where young wives are regularly fucked to death by their spouses, nor the wild sex orgies engaged in by the more restrained members of the male population...

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Anyway, here's another interesting quote from Chaucer and the same 
work :

"Kek kek! kokkow! quek quek!"


           

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