Hausarbeit Nervt!

I have an essay to do... Well, two; but one of them is due sooner than the other.

The one I'm stressing on is one I have to write using only German words... 3500 of those words to be exact. It's on the variations on the theme of the fool in German humanism. The fool was used as a satirical device to criticize the church during the 15th-16th centuries, because the fool would often be allowed to speak his mind, and so he makes the perfect character with which to critique something.

P.S. the 'Q' on my computer is stuck.

I'm having the hardest time just trying to break through the ice. Writing in German will be difficult but not impossible. In fact, it'll just take more time than normal. However, I don't even know where to begin. This topic's so goddamn broad. For example, the most famous example of the fool as a satire is 'Das Narrenschiff' or 'Ship of Fools' by Sebastian Brant. This book is written in Middle German and is 112 or 114 (no one seems to agree... They should just count) seperate stories about fools travelling to Narregonia (fool's paradise) in an Odyssey-style adventure. However it's written in MIDDLE GERMAN! Go ahead and try reading something in middle English, and lemme know how that works out for you.

Another form of the Narrenthema (theme of the fool) is used by Erasmus (a famous Dutch scholar and all-round Humanist, that's so popular they named a pan-European university program after him), and Martin Luther when he was about to translate the bible into German.

So throughout all that I have to choose something to talk about for 10 pages (or so). It's strange; it's like I've forgotten how to write a damned essay. The research portion isn't helping out much, though. I have to pour through academic texts, which are stuffy and boring enough in English without having to be in a language I'm just starting to get the hang of.

Alright. I'm gonna go talk to myself out loud a bunch and hope to figure things out.

Tschüss!

P.S. I'm tired, it's late, and spellcheck isn't working on Blogger right now. Why is it that things have stopped working on Firefox?