detenebrate

People are always like “Yea, the lords in the middle ages were selfish. They kept the peasants in squalor and left them illiterate and the people could barely get enough to eat.” And I just gesture towards Appalachian shanty towns, to the state of inner city schools, to food stamp funding being cut.

“Whose degree is useless now?” I quip from the saddle of my destrier as I close my beaver, bring my lance to its resting position and prepare to enter the lists.

detenebrate

I’ve no memory of writing this. And yet, I still approve. Well done, probably-a-little-drunk-past-me. Well done indeed.