> The 'newts are _clearly_ all about attempting to become dragons;
> the EWF to some extent to perhaps, but in the first instance
> in understanding them.
Maybe I'm wrong but I'd always seen the EWF as analagous to the GLs in that they were trying to do the same thing, understand them in order to use their power for their own ends. Their eng goal was exploiting the dragons - that's what got the dragons all riled.
Andrew Barton says (759):
> They were
> known as 'vulgar' latin ; 'Italian' as such didn't exist, and Dante
> set out (following but not imitating the french Romance novelists,
> and the Troubadours) to write an epic poem in a vulgar form.
R
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