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highlyeccentric ([personal profile] highlyeccentric) wrote2009-03-11 03:14 pm
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The obvious answer!

Mild feverishness, disordered sleep pattern, heaviness of limbs, headaches, general confusion, lack of appetite.

You might think I'm getting the flu, but in fact, it is perfectly obvious that I'm suffering from Green Disease.
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[identity profile] eggs-maledict.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh dear. I probably should've seen this coming, shouldn't I? Especially after last time we spoke about all this.

I am assuming this means what I think it means. Which might seem obvious but is a tricksy state of mind...

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno, what happened last time we spoke about Green Disease?

[identity profile] eggs-maledict.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Well I meant more that assuming you mean the Green Disease I think you mean.

In the sense that there was a long protracted discussion of the catalyst of said disease and said catalysts motivations.

I seem to like using said [insert noun/pronoun] today.

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
On the other hand, last I heard only virgins are eligible for Green Disease, so maybe I've just got the flu... *innocent eyes*

[identity profile] eggs-maledict.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Gah. Now my lack of specificity is a problem.

Are we talking about a Pearl Jam song? That wasn't what I meant...

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
No, we're talking about the late medieval malady.

[identity profile] eggs-maledict.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Good good, but still not what I thought. Though what I thought was, nonetheless, medieval-related...

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
You not heard of "green sickness"? It is my favourite piece of medieval medical knowledge.

[identity profile] eggs-maledict.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Tell me more...I am intrigued.

I had thought it referred somehow to Mrs. Couer de Lyon...

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
It's a malady afflicting late medieval virgins. Symptoms as described above, plus various other things from insomnia to lesbianism.

Cure: marry 'em off! Or, in some cases, apply a hot compress between the legs.

[identity profile] eggs-maledict.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oh medieval people, you so special...

It is a pretty amusing diagnosis though...

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Amusingly, in 1910 Marie Stopes identified the same set of "hysterical" symptoms in her married female clientele. Unlike the 14th century, she didn't think virgins likely to suffer, placing the blame not on a lack of sex but a lack of SATISFACTORY sex.

[identity profile] eggs-maledict.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
BAHAHAHAHA!!!!

That is really going well beyond awesome and into the world of funtasticness...

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Marie Stopes is BRILLIANT. "Married Love" is a crack-up to read, but also pretty spankin' awesome in many respects. Weird class bias, not so brilliant.

[identity profile] eggs-maledict.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm there's always a cloud to the silver lining I guess...

I like the reversal though. That's worth an award all by itself...
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