#QRV

[liminalpsych]

Queer reading of Vulgate pt 2: Intro pt 1

preface | intro pt 1 | intro pt 2

The introduction is written by the translator of The Quest for the Holy Grail, E. Jane Burns. Burns begins by laying out the context of the Vulgate Cycle's structure, its history and development, and the different expectations historical readers have brought to the text.

Which underscores how expectation colors perception.

What happens if we imagine the possibility of multiple writers with different backgrounds, views, progressiveness, and agendas? Instead of assuming heteronormativity, homophobia, toxic masculinity, misogyny, and a single unified author with a singular agenda and vision - what if we stay open to the possibility of a different concept of gender than we're used to? What about possible queer subtext and the possibility of queercoding in medieval fiction, not just in modern fiction?

What if we look for those things, rather than assuming and looking for explanations that match the modern stereotypical assumptions of medieval people/writers/beliefs? (After all, it's those modern assumptions that lead to the phenomenon of "history will say they were roommates," or the all too common error of "woman buried with warrior stuff? must be religious, can't possibly be because she actually fought.")

That's what I mean by reading with a queer lens. Because most of the time, these works are read with a heteronormative, gender-normative lens, just unconscious or subconscious as a bias, and so any queer elements are missed entirely.

(Like. I still don't understand how anyone can read the passages with Galehaut as anything other than Extremely Gay. How do you miss that? Yet so many people assume it's "comrades" and "bros" despite the text going out of its way to say that it's more than companionship. Because of the default, unexamined lens that they're using.)

….anyway. off the soapbox. Back to the intro.

"Many literary historians… have mistakenly sought in Arthurian romance a recognizable ancestor text for the modern novel" and are disappointed in the somewhat disjointed conglomeration of the Vulgate. They then either dismissed it as incoherent and terrible, or defended it as having an underlying coherence and attempted to legitimize it by imagining a singular author (or unifying editor).

"The unwieldy mix of spiritual and chivalric modes that crisscross unevenly throughout… mark the Vulgate Cycle as a product of the emergent social and political tensions in thirteenth-century France," with the popularized chivalric tales of knights from the mid-twelfth-century getting infused with Biblical allusions and Grail mysteries around 1200. Prose had a more religious connotation and association than verse, which was more recreational (condemned sometimes as "vain pleasures").

"Lady readers, in particular, were exhorted after 1200 to abandon the deceptive tales of Arthurian knights." Which supports the idea that one of the primary audiences for these stories were women! Women of the 1200's French court, in the case of the French romances, though I'm sure readership extended beyond that.

This is another example of how expectation shapes perception. There's a tendency for modern readers to assume that medieval literature will be dry, dull, misogynistic, homophobic, etc… and so I've seen people assume that the vast numbers of unnamed ladies/maidens/queens are a product of misogyny, of being seen as too unimportant for distinct names.

And certainly there was systemic misogyny in the culture, just as there is nowadays - but I don't think that's the core reason for the nameless female characters. It doesn't match up with the Vulgate's characterization of these women as clever, competent, independent, and saving knights more often than being saved by knights. (Nor does it match up with how many women are named.)

I've heard a theory (probably on Tumblr somewhere, I can't remember where) that the unnamed women are the equivalent of "y/n" ("your name") in modern fanfic. Reader-insert. Perhaps the author(s) expected women reading the story to project themselves onto the characters, and so made extra room for them to do so.

…But back to the introduction once more. Burns unravels the idea of a single author or even a solid, novel-like coherent narrative for the Vulgate Cycle, and arrives at this:

"The Vulgate Cycle then provides us with a text that is not a text in the modern sense of the term, a text that is always fragmentary but always a composite of more than one text, a text located somewhere and uncertainly in the complex relation between many narrative versions created by many authorial if not authoritative hands.

"The literary map accurately representing this cycle of tales would contrast starkly with Lot’s set calendar. It would be a map that changed continually as we move through the narrative terrain it charts. Although it might incorporate on one level and for the text of the Prose Lancelot in particular the existence of a predictable calendar of events, a map detailing the whole of the Vulgate Cycle would have to reflect a much looser and more flexible narrative structure.

"It would be a map with no fixed perimeter, and no set or authorized format, a map that could shift and reshape itself at successive moments and with successive readings."

A shifting mélange of a narrative, flexible and unbounded, containing multitudes, eluding attempts to define or confine it into one single known element…

…Well. That sounds like the very definition of queer.

[onceandfuturecourt]

History of the Holy Grail has defeated me for now. I quit. I can’t make myself slog through it.

I’m going to start with The Story of Merlin and then come back to HotHG after Death of Arthur.

It was one of the last pieces to be written, after all, so it’s fine to read it last, right? (It’s like. The “begats” of the Holy Grail lineage and I am not motivated enough for this.)

[ars1ty]

【箱根移動運用】「大雪の箱根で6mFM交信！旅の合間のQRV」

2025/03/08～09　家族旅行の合間、雪の箱根で電波を飛ばしてみました。

旧道から芦ノ湖へ上がると雪が降り出したので、大雪になる前に見晴らしの良い大涌谷へ移動。雪と霧の大涌谷は圧巻でした。 大涌谷では早めの昼食をとり、家族がお土産物を見ている間、車へ戻り運用しました。

使用機材はVX8DとSG-M911。

大涌谷でまずは6ｍFM2.5WでCQを出すと３回目くらいでコールがありました。市川市の局とつながり57のレポートを頂きました。 最近の6mFMの状況を考えると、私にとっては快挙でした。

2mFMは空振りに終わり、430MHzでは1W��横浜市の局とつながり59のレポートを頂きました。

昼から降り始めた雪はその後どんどん積り、ここは何県？という様相で、素晴らしき白銀の世界が広がる中、ドライブを堪能しながら仙石原の宿泊先へ移動。

宿泊先のベランダにSG-M911をマグネット基台で設置するものの、手すりの材質のせいでマグネットが付かず、設置に苦戦しました。 理想的な設置とはならず手すりの少し内側に設置。

夕食後に雪景色が堪能できる温泉を楽しんだ後、再びQRV。430MHzでは静岡の局とつながりました。この局長さんとは以前QSOをしたことがあるのですが、こちらがモービル移動だった影響で最後が尻切れになってしまい、いつかまたQSOしたいと願っていた方でした。偶然つながり大変うれしい思いです。 アマチュア無線の活動の中で、別のバンドやモード、そして別の場所での再会は本当に嬉しいですし特別感があります。

翌朝のんびりと朝食を楽しんでから、各バンドCQを出しました。アンテナ設置がいまいちなのか空振りに終わりました。

その後、雪の朝湯を頂いてチェックアウト。家族と美術館巡りを楽しんだ後、山伏峠へ移動。各バンドCQ出すも430MHzのみ静岡から数局コールがありました。 家族での美術館巡り、短時間の運用でも成果が出たのは、やはり箱根という立地の良さのおかげでしょう。改めて箱根のポテンシャルの高さを感じました。

雪見温泉、移動QRV、美術館、どれも最高でした。 次回はもう少しじっくりQRVもできる旅もしたいですね。

　

[silkcovers]

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[fieriframes]

[J oarnwm xo vrwn bjf Oxacn xw "Caryun M" jwm bqxdum wnena qjen kaxdpqc qrv jwm rc'b anjuuh lqjwpn vh ernf xo mrwrwp rw Njbcnaw Ndaxyn.]

[little-so1diers]

yall i found this paper in one of the abandoned hero outposts. transcribed for your convince the doctor handwriting was insane

“R anpanc qjerwp jbtnm cx uxxt jc cqn cnbcrwp uxpb. Ro R qjm twxfw fqjc vh lxuunjpdn fxdum kn ydccrwp cqnv cqaxdpq, R fxdum qjen bqdc cqrb juu mxfw jb bxxw jb rc bcjacnm; R fxdum qjen cxum bxvnxwn, jwhxwn nubn, kdc fn’an rw cxx mnny wxf.” “R oxxurbquh anzdnbcnm cx uxxt jc cqn anlxamrwpb; xwuh oxa cqn ngyanbb ydayxbn xo anyxacrwp, rw ljbn cqn JR qjm jmejwlnm mdarwp cqn vjwh, vjwh hnjab rw cqn cnbcrwp lqjvkna. Vh lxuunjpdn fjb anudlcjwc, kdc R mrm vjwjpn cx ynabdjmn qrv.” “Nrpqch-brg.” “Cqnh qjm urenm nrpqch-brg uroncrvnb rw cqjc cnbcrwp lqjvkna.” “…Jyyaxgrvjcnuh brg-cqxdbjwm-oxda-qdwmanm jwm oroch hnjab.” “Njlq brvdujcnm uron j mroonanwc lrch, frcq mroonanwc ynxyun, mroonanwc blnwjarxb, mroonanwc mrbjbcnab; kdc juu nzdjuuh qxaarkun.” “Cqnh anvnvkna njlq jwm nenah rcnajcrxw xo nenah uron cqjc cqnh jan oxalnm cx uren jwm mrn rw cqn wjvn xo knrwp j ‘ynaonlc qnax’.”

[blunt-force-therapy]

Other useful commands for fucking in Morse code: QRV, QRM, QRQ, QRO, QSL

on their clit like morse code

[mapforham]

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[epaulino]

Código Q radio px e radioamador

CÓDIGO Q – SIMPLIFICADO QAP – Na escuta.QRA–NomeQRF – RefeiçãoQRG – Freqüência, Canal. QRH – Está havendo variação de freqüênciaQRI – Tonalidade de transmissão QRL – Estou ocupado, não interfira QRM – Interferência provocada por outra estação. QRN – Interferência provocada por estática. QRO – Abrir squelch ou limitador QRQ – Manipular rapidamente QRS – Manipular lentamente QRT – Parar de transmitir. QRU – Tem alguma mensagem. QRV – Estou à disposição. QRX – Aguarde um instante que chamarei QRY – Quando será a minha vez de transmitir QRZ – Quem está chamando? QSA – Intensidade de sinais (1/1- muito fraca; 2/2- fraca; 3/3- regular; 4/4- boa; 5/5- ótima). QSB – Sinal oscilando. QSJ – Relativo a dinheiro QSL – Entendido, OK. QSO – Pedido de autorização p/ contato com outro rádio QSP – Ponte, Retransmissão de mensagem para outra estação. QSJ – Dinheiro. QSY – Transmitir em outra freqüência, Mudar de canal. QTA – Mensagem cancelada. QTC – Mensagem urgente. QTH – Local, Endereço QTI – Destino exato para onde se vai QTO – Banheiro. QTU – Turno e equipe de trabalho QTR – Horas. TKS – Obrigado PTT – Botão de toque de falar. CÓDIGO FONÉTICO – INTERNACIONAL A – Alfa B – Bravo C – Charlie D – Delta E – Echo F – Fox G – Golf H – Hotel I – Índia J – Juliet K – Kilo L – Lima M – Mike N – November O – Oscar P – Papa Q – Quebec R – Romeo S – Sierra T – Tango U – Uniforme V – Victor W – Whisky X – X – Ray Y – Yankee Z – Zulu NUMERAIS

0 – Negativo 1 – Primeiro 2 – Segundo 3 – Terceiro 4 – Quarto 5 – Quinto 6 – Sexto 7 – Sétimo 8 – Oitavo 9 – Nono

* Quando o numeral tiver vários números, usa falar da seguinte maneira, por exemplo: 13 – fica assim: 1-primeiro3- terceiro, uma placa de veículo, por exemplo: ACL 8227 – fica assim A – Alfa, Charlie, L-Lima 8-oitavo, 2-2segundo, 2-segundo, 7-sétimo. GÍRIAS MAIS USADAS NOS RÁDIO PX Acoplamento – Reunião Água de eloqüência – Cachaça Ana Maria – AM (amplitude modulada) Ancorado – Parado Anel – Primo Anzol – Polícia Rodoviária Aparato – Rádio Asa dura – Avião Atrás do toco – Só na escuta Bailarina – Caneta Baixa freqüência – Telefonema Balaio – Bagunça Balançar os queixos – Modular Banda lateral – Rádio com LSB/USB Bandeira 2 – Táxi Banheira – Mar Barra móvel – Automóvel Barra náutica – Barco Basquete – Trabalho Batom – Mulher Bicorar – Pedir para falar Bigode – Homem Bigode a metro – Pessoalmente Bigodeira – Interferência Bobo – Relógio Botina – Amplificador de potência Botina branca – Médico Botina preta – Policial Botina vermelha – Bombeiro Break – Pedir oportunidade para falar Caixa preta – Rádio transmissor Câmbio espada – Transmissão muito longa Canaleta – Canal Capacete – Sogro Carga pesada – Caminhão Carga pesada bonequinha – Ônibus Carvão – Esposo Casa de beijo – Bordel ou motel Cascão superior – Camisa / Blusa Cascão inferior – Calça / calção / saia Centelha – Neto Chá de urubu – Café Chucrutar – Aumentar a quantidade de canais de um radio Chute nas canelas – Saudação cordial Chuva artificial – Banho Comer barbante – Esperar Copiar – Escutar Corujar – Ficar escutando uma conversa sem modular Cristal – Esposa Cristalina – Filha Cristalóide – Filho Cristalografia – Família Curto circuito – Briga Desligar os filamentos – Desligar o rádio DX – Contato distante Esparadrapo – Irmão Feijão queimado – Amante Feiticeiro – Técnico de radio Fio Maravilha – FM Fundo de poço – Estação com um sinal fraco Gordurames – Comida Grega – Viagem JC – Jesus Lambari – Estação fraca Levanta a Saia Baiana – LSB Loura suada – Cerveja Macaco preto – Telefone Macanudo – Colega, Camarada Maria mole – Antena móvel mais tradicional da faixa Modular – Falar, Ação (ex: modular uma loira suada = beber uma cerveja) Mosca branca – Zona de silêncio Munheca ou Munheca de pau – Principiante Munhecada – Errar, Mancada

Nave – Portaria Okapa – Tudo certo Orelha – Vizinho Papai Noel – Anatel Pára-raio – Sogra Pé de borracha – Carro Pé de ferro – Trem Pé de pato – Navio Pé de sola – A pé Perneta – Amigo, Colega Pernetinhas – Filhos, Crianças Pirambeira – Sair, Desaparecer Pitimbado – Doente, Quebrado Portadora – Transmissão sem áudio Primeiríssima – Mãe Primeiríssimo – Pai PX maior – Deus QTH de descanso – Residência Recarregar as baterias – Almoçar, Jantar, Comer… Reco-reco nas costelas – Abraço Roger – Entendido (usado nos 11 metros como cambio) Santiago – Sinal Tapete branco – Papel Tapete preto – Asfalto Terezinha de Vasconcelos – TV (televisão) TKS – Obrigado Trapisunga – Aparelhagem Tudo nos contentos – Tudo bem Tudo nos descontentos – Tudo mal Turmalina – Namorada Tubarão – Estação forte Unidade Móvel – Veículo Urubu Sai de Baixo – USB Vertical – Conversa pessoal 2 metros – Dormir 2 metros horizontais – Cama 51 – Aperto de mão 55 – Felicidades 73 – Abraço 88 – Beijo DIVISÃO E IDENTIFICAÇÃO DAS REGIÕES DO BRASIL PX/PY 1 – 1ª Região – Rio de Janeiro e Espírito Santo PX/PY 2 – 2ª Região – São Paulo PX/PY 3 – 3ª Região – Rio grande do Sul PX/PY 4 – 4ª Região – Minas Gerais PX/PY 5 – 5ª Região – Paraná e Santa Catarina PX/PY 6 – 6ª Região – Bahia e Sergipe PX/PY 7 – 7ª Região – Alagoas, Ceará, Pernambuco, Paraíba, e Rio Grande do Norte PX/PY 8 – 8ª Região – Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Maranhão, Pará, Piauí, Roraima e Rondônia PX/PY 9 – 9ª Região – Distrito Federal, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, F. Noronha e IlhasNo indicativo do Rádio a região a qual ele pertence é indicada pelo numero após as letras

PX ou PY.Ex.: PX 2 G 1234 – 2ª Região – São Paulo

[liminalpsych]

Queer Reading of the Vulgate Cycle pt 1: Preface

preface | intro pt 1 | intro pt 2

Some context on 1. this readthrough and 2. the Vulgate Cycle in general!

I've read large chunks of the Vulgate Cycle all out of order, sporadically, but I haven't read it from cover-to-cover yet. I want to remedy that, though I want to read it through a queer lens. (Also a trauma psychology lens, but I don't have a good shorthand term for that.)

The Vulgate Cycle (aka the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, the Prose Lancelot, or the Pseudo-Map Cycle) is an Arthurian romance composed between 1215 and 1235-ish, by Anonymous. Who may have been one person, but more likely was multiple authors. (I'm in the "multiple authors" camp, I can see no other explanation for the dramatic tone shift of The Quest for the Holy Grail. Or the History of the Holy Grail, for that matter.)

It's a massive text. It attempts to "elaborate the full story of the Arthurian era and to set that era in a framework of universal history" (so writes Norris J. Lacy in the preface to the translation).

The History of the Holy Grail (originally the "Estoire del saint Graal") - actually one of the last sections to be written, even if its contents come first chronologically. Traces the early history of the Grail and Grail-keepers. Lots of Bible fanfic bits in this one. My least favorite section (I find it tedious and dull).

The Story of Merlin - also one of the last sections to be written. Focuses on Merlin and his role in Arthur's conception, birth, and coronation. Also focuses on Arthur's early days as king, and some of his early knights (young Orkney brothers!), and Arthur's early relationship with Guinevere (back when things were really good between them).

Lancelot Proper (aka Le Roman de Lancelot, Lancelot propre, or just "Lancelot du Lac") - Lancelot's life and adventures (and everyone else's adventures that end up vaguely connected to him) from birth until… right before the Grail quest. Divided into 3-6 parts by modern scholars (Lacy divides it into 6, so that's what I'll be going with).

The Quest for the Holy Grail (La Queste del saint Graal) - My second-least-favorite section; it's less tedious and dull than the History, but it's such a departure from the tone of the rest of the Vulgate Cycle, and it feels like a text designed to convert people to Christianity (and that may indeed have been its intended purpose). It's possible that the tone shift might be because each sectio nhad a different translator, but I don't think that explains it sufficiently.

The Death of Arthur (La Mort Artu) - the most readable section, imho, and probably my favorite. It promptly unravels all the purity nonsense that Quest put into place (feels like when a show gets a new showrunner for a season, and then the old showrunner gets the reins back a season later and is doing damage control on all the weird turns that the interim showrunner took), Lancelot and Guinevere get back together, and the story leaps into intense drama and beautiful tragedy.

Then there's the Post-Vulgate, which is basically just a grimdark and more religious rewrite of the Vulgate, minus the Lancelot Proper. Lots more Grail focus. I don't know if I'll do a readthrough of it or not.

The specific translation notes in the Preface are fascinating, and I highly recommend them (I love translation notes), but the most relevant bit is this:

"…the translators have tried to steer a middle course. Our primary concern was to present a reliable and readable text to modern readers, but we have also made an effort to retain a certain number of the stylistic features of the Old French romances, provided those features were reasonably compatible with the characteristics of modern English usage.

Lacy warns the reader that the History of the Holy Grail has "a convoluted, dense style" far more than most texts of the period. (It's so tedious, do not recommend.) "The author appears to be far more concerned with substance and symbolism… than with concision and grace." They've cleaned up the text in some places but overall kept the characteristics of the style. If this is the more accessible version, I would not want to read a literal direct translation. D:

Next up: Introduction (more translation notes) to the History of the Holy Grail.

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QRV - Story of Merlin 1

preface | intro pt 1 | intro pt 2 | HHG

I've given up for now on the History of the Holy Grail, so let's move on to The Story of Merlin instead, translated by Rupert T. Pickens.

We get a lot of worldbuilding in this first chapter! Devil lore, Merlin lore, medieval Christian magic lore, and some of the cultural beliefs about women:

Things that make you vulnerable to devils: not crossing yourself before you get into or out of bed, sleeping in the dark ("a devil does not come willingly where light is"), being by yourself instead of in a crowd, and getting angry.

Women are seen as lustful, sexual beings ("We women are made for just one thing: taking our delight from men" - this comes up more later in the Vulgate Cycle).

Incubi live in the air, can have sex with humans if they're secretive about it, and can impregnate women.

Devils have the "art of knowing things that are done, said, and past." They're also cunning, intelligent, clever, and have good memories.

Merlin's mother is the eldest of 3 sisters (the middle of which is deceased before Merlin is born) and a brother (also dead).

Merlin is named after his maternal grandfather, who was driven to death by Merlin's incubus father.

Merlin was born extremely hairy, his midwives and mothers were very frightened of him from the moment of his birth, and he started speaking in full sentences at 18 months old.

Merlin is born with "the power and mind of a devil, and the cunning, because he was sired by one" (he gets to keep their craft, artifice, and their "intelligence and memory"). He also gets to keep the "devils' art of knowing things that are done, said, and past," and also gets the divine ability to know the future.

Because Merlin's mother was devout and repentant, because she "had not wanted or willed what had happened to her" (the incubus impregnating her while she slept), and because Merlin was baptized immediately after birth, he's protected from the influence of the devils. But God grants him their abilities, powers, and the additional divine power of prophecy. Cambion with the Cleric class, I guess?

Merlin defends his mother in court, and absolutely roasts the attendees and judges in the process. Reveals secrets and so on. It's all very courtroom TV show types of dramatic.

It starts at the beginning: with Merlin's conception and childhood. And the story of Merlin's conception starts further back than that, with the devils being upset about the whole Jesus thing, because apparently that involved freeing a bunch of people who were in hell.

This is a corner of theology that I'm less familiar with. (I went on a tangent about religion in Arthuriana at this point and made it into its own post.) It gets a little preachy in a weird way, kind of reminding me of Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis).

But eventually the devils come up with a plan: they'll get their own preacher! Someone to "speak out and tell about our aims, our deeds, and our ways of life" and might have the power (like the devils, apparently) to divine the past. Maybe even the future, if they're lucky.

One of the devils knows a woman who will do anything he wants her to do, and he knows of another devil who can take on human form and secretly have sex with a woman. So the devil ruins the husband by killing his livestock and his son, then getting the wife to hang herself, and so the husband became so grieved and stressed that he became ill and died.

So then there are three daughters left. The middle daughter gets seduced by a squire and then executed for adultery. A priest (who we later discover is named Blaise) shows up and converts the eldest daughter. Another woman shows up (at, of course, the devil's urging) and manages to lure away the youngest daughter.

Here's where we see some of the beliefs of the era about women really highlighted. The woman who's luring away the youngest daughter says, "We women are made for just one thing: taking our delight from men."

Taking their delight from men. Women were seen as lustful, sexual beings, often tempting pious virginal men away from Christian purity. This is important context in understanding the rest of the story - especially because the modern stereotype of how medieval women were viewed tends to be the opposite of how they were actually depicted.

(We'll get into medieval masculinity later, because that gets really interesting in contrast with modern, Western masculine norms.)

Back to the story.

The older sister is very worried about the devil who haunts the whole family, but the priest says that if she's very devout and very careful, avoiding anger (because "the devil likes most to be where wrath is"), crossing herself when she gets into and out of bed, and makes sure "there is light wherever you lie down, for a devil does not willingly come where light is," she won't have any cause for concern.

Which works out for two years, until a rough confrontation with the younger sister leads to the older sister laying down in bed, distraught and wounded, without crossing herself or lighting a lamp. She falls asleep, and the devil impregnates her. She wakes up feeling awful, crosses herself, and has a bit of a breakdown for the rest of the night.

She goes immediately to the priest who gave her the advice, confesses the whole situation to him, says she awoke to find herself "shamed and deflowered" but with her room locked and empty.

Blaise responds in a pretty shitty way at this point: "You are all full of devils and devils dwell in you! From what you tell me, how can I hear your confession and give you penance, since I truly believe that you are lying? For never was a woman deflowered when she did not know by whom, unless she could not see the man who did it to her. And you want me to believe that such a wonder happened to you!"

She swears it's true, and while he still doesn't believe her, he gives her a few taboos/penances and blesses her. Eventually he starts to doubt his disbelief, and comes around to helping her. She goes off and lives exactly as he commanded, a "very good and simple life."

But she becomes visibly pregnant, and so she gets arrested and brought to trial when she can't name the father. Blaise comes to testify on her behalf and advises that the judges lock her up in a tower with two midwives, letting her live at least until she gives birth and the child has grown up enough to speak.

The child is born with "the power and mind of a devil, and the cunning, because he was sired by one," but because he was sired "by deceit and trickery while (the mother) was asleep" and because she confessed and cried out for mercy immediately upon waking, "God did not want the child to lose, because of the devil, anything that belonged to him; rather He allowed the child to have what was his by right. Therefore, He bestowed on him the devils' art of knowing things that are done, said, and past - all this he knew." And since he got baptized immediately after birth, that protected him from what happened, especially because the mother "had not wanted or willed what had happened to her." And then the child also is given "the sense and power to know the future."

He was born hairier than any other child the midwives had ever seen; mother and midwives alike were very frightened of him. She named him after her father, Merlin, and she nursed him until he was nine months old, though he looked as though he were two years old or more at that point.

When he was 18 months old, the two midwives left, which meant the mother would be brought to trial. She was very distressed about this; her child looked at her, smiled, and said, "Never will you die for what has happened to you because of me."

Merlin basically becomes his mother's lawyer in the ensuing court case, and threatens everyone with knowledge of their infidelities and the infidelities of their parents. He reveals that the judge's father is actually the mother's priest, who colluded with the judge's mother to make it seem like the judge was the son of her husband.

It's all extremely dramatic.

But the judge says "it is not right that I should bring (Merlin's) mother to justice when I do not condemn my own."

(The judge's biological father drowns himself when he learns that the judge knows of the adultery, and the story says, "This is why this story forbids anyone ever to flee other people, for the devil abides more often with a man by himself than in a crowd.")

Merlin eventually explains who his father is: "I am the son of a devil who ensnared my mother. Know also that one kind of devil is called incubi, and they live in the air. God allowed me to have their intelligence and their memory, so I know things that are done, said, and past… And because of (my mother's) holy and true repentance… God has given me such power that I know the things that are to come." He later says to Blaise, "The devils have lost hold of me, but I have not lost their craft or their artifice."

Then Merlin and Blaise the priest talk about Blaise writing down all the events Merlin shares with him, and what the future holds for both of them.

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【QSLカード】と【QSO】のバランス

QSOの会話の中で、私が紙QSLカードを取り扱っていないこと、そしてJARLの会員でないことをお伝えすると、時折「もったいない」「沢山もらえるのに」といったお言葉を頂くことがあります。

まさしく、その通りだと思います。

言うまでもありませんが、コロナ禍により人々の在宅時間が増え、QSOも活発になり、QSLカードの交換も盛んになりました。その結果、JARLのQSL配送は追いつかず、発送から到着まで一年以上を要する事態となりました。JARLからは、QSLカード発送を控えめにしてほしいとのメッセージも出されました。

私はもともと紙カードの交換が得意ではありません。そのため、アマチュア無線の楽しみの一つであるQSL交換を十分に味わえていないと思われ、「もったいない」とご指摘を受けることもあります。しかし、カード交換そのものを避けているわけではなく、電子的な交信証のやりとりを続けています。

まだ紙カードしかなかった頃、QSL交換は儀礼的で、交わすことが当然のように求め��れていました。そのため、私は新たな局とのQSOを避けて、仲間たちとの移動運用を中心に楽しんでいました。

インターネットの普及とともに、PDFやJPEGでカード交換ができないものかと夢見ていた私に、eQSLの登場は一筋の希望でした。そして、JARLからの「紙カード交換は控えめに」という呼びかけによっ��「No Card OK」という文化が浸透し、より自由に、より軽やかにQRVに向かう気持ちが芽生えたのです。

昔、グラフィックデザイナーをしていたこともあり、カードの作成は苦ではありません。しかし、時間に追われる中では、どうしても制作よりもQSOを優先してしまい、思うように作れていないのが実情です。

それでも、移動運用のたびに、風景とともにカードを残していきたい。そんな思いが、いま少しずつ、胸の中に育ち始めています。

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