More About the Story:
- Want to hear the entire Decameron? Miette helped record it for Librivox, a real endurance effort, but worth it.
Much as I would love to read the entire Decameron, and one day maybe I will (when the sound quality is improved to the point where I no longer sound like a podcastrati… and yes I am working on it!), for now, here’s enough of an excerpt to give you pleasantest of dreams of romance in the time of plague. Besides, it doesn’t get much more hypercritically metatextual, reading a bedtime story that is a bedtime story being read.
Until the day comes when I’m able to read the entire book, when you and I are all up all night tossing with the need for more words (and what a day that’ll be), you can read The Decameron yourselves if you want to pay for it.
Now, please go to bed. You need your rest. Sweet dreams. Don’t eat fowl.
11 responses so far ↓
1 Anonymous // Mar 29, 2005 at 1:49 pm
Such a lovely tale. Now I’m going to have to read the whole damned book. Thanks a lot!
2 Scoot // Mar 29, 2005 at 1:52 pm
Oops–that last comment was me, not some anonymous passerby.
3 marilou // Jul 4, 2005 at 1:18 am
nice story
4 rocky // Nov 26, 2005 at 3:58 am
what a great story, that inspires me to make one
5 Tami // Mar 3, 2006 at 5:17 am
it made me laugh… first i choked, and then i couldn’t stop laughing…
6 Anonymous // Nov 28, 2006 at 12:13 am
I love this story. It shows the lengths an individual will go in the pursuit of love.
7 flyingsqurriel // Feb 5, 2007 at 3:44 pm
i had to read this book in my english class and i must say that it suck and now im pissed because i have to do a report over it
8 flyingsqurriel // Feb 5, 2007 at 3:46 pm
it was a joke i love the book it made me happy you had better approve the comment before it was a funny ha ha joke and is only for laughs but it really was a good story i love it
9 Chad // Mar 2, 2007 at 3:48 pm
your book sucks
10 JOY // Aug 16, 2007 at 5:32 am
ahhh…
t’was so touching…
sacrificing ur most priceless possesion inorder to satisfy others..
11 prizzy_bodyslam@hotmail.com // Feb 24, 2008 at 3:31 am
from the Decameron : Federigo is Falcon
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