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These were the thoughts/summary after reading the story entitled The Pot of Basil, written by J. M. Rigg in 1903.
Monday, April 25, 2016
Reading Diary Week 14 Continued: The Pot of Basil
This is another crazy story about lust just like the last monk story I read. In this one, three brothers all fancy one girl. The girl only love Lorenzo. Because she only loves Lorenzo one of the other brothers gets jealous and literally kills and buries his own brother. In a dream this woman hears Lorenzo say his brother has killed him and told her where to find the body. Upon confirming her dream and finding his body, she chops his head off and plants it in a pot to grow basil. The nutrients from his decaying head and her tears eventually make luscious basil grow. One day finally the brothers check out this basil pot, find their brothers head and re-bury it. The woman is so upset by this that she literally dies from weeping so much.
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Aren't those Boccaccio stories wild, Alex? I wasn't quite sure why you split it up into two diary parts - the Monk and his Abbot is one of the stories in part A, and when you are done reading part B, go on to the stories in part B; there are some great ones in there too!
ReplyDeleteDecameron: Part A and Part B