[Artemisia] Four Dons walk onto a battlefield...

[Marten van Rosenveldt]

My Dear Don Conchobhar,

Using both French and Italian shows the depth that a cadet to a WS in Artemesia, or for that matter, a cadet to an Artemisian WS, should have.  Both of the phrases are essentially unique to their native tongue and cannot be expressed succinctly in English.

As to Maitre Guillaume's instruction, I want to have my fencing progress to the state of his, i.e., at the end of an intensive 3 hour practice, his singlet is damp - not sweaty.

YIS, Marten
Proudly cadeted to M. Guillaume


----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Bradley <connor.mac.michil at gmail.com>
To: Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:18:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Four Dons walk onto a battlefield...

On Feb 11, 2008 9:37 AM, Marten van Rosenveldt <kendofencer at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Now my experience may be atypical but as an Artemisian cadet I feel that
> the story fails to capture the almost ineffable languid j'ne se qua that is
> required of the incipient Courtier.  The trick is to achieve sprezzatura in
> all things, and none of the illustrations capture this concept.
>
> Back to your regular programming.
>
> Marten, Cadet to Maitre Guillaume
>
Bad cadet, using French and Italian in the same email.  Of course your
experience is atypical; you're a cadet to a WS in Artemisia as opposed to an
Artemisian WS (not that there's anything wrong with that :) ).  Mtre. G. has
all these funny ideas in his head that he teaches his cadets that he learned
/elsewhere/. :)

Don Conchobhar (who is happy to have Guillaume in Artemisia all these years
and has learned much from him ... now if we could just get Nicollo and
Christian to move back so we didn't have a WS trade deficit ...)
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