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

Mon Feb 11 11:50:08 CST 2008

Ah, but Marten, have you mastered the Pose yet? All fencers need to know how
to strike a fetching figure and you are no different. I must say I was
appalled that my dear Guillaume had not taught this fact to Blaise in a
timely manner. I had to step in personally, and now, look at the man! I hope
I am not required for your training as well or I shall have to start
charging Guillaume a commission.

I look forward to Blaise and Spanish Dan having a rapier and off-hand mirror
duel at Uprising!

Stâpanâ Catriona Morganosa, OP

"They can gnaw a man in half in 30 seconds."
"Ew! Who times that?"

-----Original Message-----
From: artemisia-bounces at lists.gallowglass.org
[mailto:artemisia-bounces at lists.gallowglass.org] On Behalf Of Marten van
Rosenveldt
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:47 AM
To: Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Four Dons walk onto a battlefield...

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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