Christopher Moore - Fool

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"This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank… If that's the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!"
Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the
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(no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughters — a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust… and a ghost (there's always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head.
Fool
A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear's cherished fool for years, from the time the king's grown daughters — selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordelia — were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege's side when Lear — at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucester — demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father's request is kind of… well… stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot.
Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country's about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart's wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things right… is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He's already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit… and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he's going to have to do some very fancy maneuvering — cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff) — to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear's good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia's twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatings… and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who's amenable to shagging along the way.
Pocket may be a fool… but he's definitely not an idiot.

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King Lear , Act I, Scene 1, King Lear.

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Wanker—one who wanks, a tosser.

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Snogging, to snog—kissing, making out, swapping spit, sucking face.

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King Lear , Act I, Scene 1, King Lear.

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Poofter—homosexual.

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Ponced—verb form of “ponce,” a gay man, meaning to walk in a gay manner. Could possibly be a real word.

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Mummers—traveling entertainers, often associated with winter solstice celebrations, but could be anything from acrobats to a theatrical troupe.

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Y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn —Welsh, “The Red Dragon should go forward!” Originally the Welsh National Motto. Later replaced by “Yes, we have shepherd’s pie!”

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Ydych chi’n cymryd cerdynnau credid? — Welsh, “Do you take credit cards?”

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Nuncle—archaic, uncle.

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Curtain wall—the outer wall of a castle compound, usually surrounding all of the buildings.

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Bailey—courtyard inside a castle wall.

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Hecate—Greek goddess of witchcraft, sorcery, and ghosts.

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Fit—British slang, attractive, sexy.

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Gefilte fish—a poached ground fish patty, usually made of carp.

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Décolletage —the road to Hooterville; cleavage. From the fucking French.

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Iamb—in poetry, a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Hit IT , Give IT .

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Slag—British slang for slut, tramp.

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Dugs—breasts, teats.

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Perfidy—treachery, definitely not bosoms.

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“By St. Cardomon’s scaly feet”—the legend goes that St. Cardomon was a monk from Italy to whom the Archangel Raziel appeared, asking for a drink of water. While looking for water, Cardomon accidentally wandered into a cave that led into hell. There he was lost for forty days and forty nights, and while his feet burned when he first arrived, he soon developed the green and scaly feet of a lizard, and was protected from the fires of hell. When he returned to the angel with a flagon of ice-water (which no one had seen before), he was granted the gift of scaly feet for all time and it is often said that a woman with feet so rough that they will tear the bedsheets are “blessed by St. Cardomon.” Cardomon is the patron saint of combination skin, cold beverages, and necrophilia.

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Nyx—Greek goddess of the night.

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Cat’s paw—a small crowbar, often used by thieves to jimmy windows open.

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Priapus—a Greek god whose lust was so strong he was cursed with a permanent erection that was so large he was unable to move. The medical condition priapism is named for him.

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Saturnalia—the celebration of the winter solstice in the Roman pantheon, paying tribute to Saturn, the “sower of seeds.” Celebration of Saturnalia involved much drunkenness and indiscriminate shagging. Observed in modern times by the ritual of the “office Christmas party.”

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Arrases—tapestries and carpets hung across alcoves to cut down on drafts or preserve privacy. In Hamlet, Polonius is stabbed while hiding behind an arras.

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Balls up—slang, to ruin, to fuck up, also “bollocks up” and “cock up.”

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The mutt’s nuts—informal for the dog’s bollocks.

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Boffnacity—an expression of shagnatiousness, fit. From the Latin boffusnatious .

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Poke—a sack, bag; a pig in a poke was usually a cat, which is why you don’t buy one, being as cats are not good eating.

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Weetabix—a British cereal biscuit whose taste and texture are generally thought to be improved by the addition of monkey come.

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Dear—British colloquialism, expensive, costly.

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C’est la vie —fucking French for “that’s life.”

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