Epic House fic! "A Princeton Odyssey (Alexander Pope Is Turning In His Grave Remix)"

[bironic]

I think it will come as a surprise to exactly no one who visited remixredux08 that I was the sad soul behind the 300-line mock-epic House remix, OMG so much work and I loved it.

Title: A Princeton Odyssey (Alexander Pope Is Turning In His Grave Remix)
Characters: House, Wilson, Cuddy
Summary: A night on the town, in heroic couplets.
Rating: PG
Warnings: May leave you thinking in iambic pentameter. Otherwise, none.
Spoilers: None
Word Count: 2,600 (ca. 330 lines)
Original story: Three Sheets to the Wind by joe_pike_junior
A/N: Thanks to synn and moonlash_cc for cheerleading as this came together bit by bit, and to joe_pike_junior, in whose story this one lurked.


O Muse! do sing to me of 'Ventures grand,
The great and glorious Exploits in the Land
Of Princeton, where resides our Hero true:
A Man with Razor Tongue and Eyes of Blue
Who makes Fun of the Morons, heals the Sick,
Outwits Disease with Mind and Med'cine quick,
Annoys his Friends by acting like a Dick,
Delights in fig'ring out what makes Men tick,
Lives by the Credo that Ev'ryone lies,
And swells with Pride each time a Patient cries.
...


And because I love talking about myself and House and writing and poetry all at once, I whipped up a DVD commentary on the writing process.

Now, off to see who's who, respond to feedback, and, er, do some legitimate work.
 

Comments

[purridot.livejournal.com]

Gah! That was you! Both you and the poem are wonderful! What a labour of love!!11!!

I was reminded how a student came to our Iliad midterm having NOT bought the 1997 translation in the bookstore, but having saved money by borrowing the 1715 Pope version from the library. She said she loved it! As I do your Housian epic :D

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. It would be a midterm in itself to study -- I'm having trouble articulating this -- what different students thought the original text was based on the translation they read, wouldn't it? Did they read the original and a translation?

Anyway -- thanks! I'm so happy you liked it. I'd hoped the epithets and rosy-fingered dawn reference would make classicists happy. :)

[zulu.livejournal.com]

That was the most epic Epic I've read in some time, and given that I've just emerged from a 16th Century Literature course, that's saying something. Loved the commentary, too--man, I just love commentaries, period, because it's so cool to know where stuff came from.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Just a little proof that epics aren't dead yet. :)

It was very cool to find out about the play that inspired your remix, too. I wish I had more time to go check it out. One day....

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

YAY for the dvd commentary!

I am so impressed. I've written a handful of fannish sonnets (and way back in my early Sentinel days a million years ago I wrote a couple of crowns of sonnets) but nothing that even remotely begins to resemble the scope of this project. This is so awesome. I love fandom.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

It was kind of exhausting, but nevertheless fun all the way through. Fandom definitely = awesome -- where else can a person geek out like this and not just be squinted at and shied carefully away from but instead have readers who also like it?

I've written a handful of fannish sonnets (and way back in my early Sentinel days a million years ago I wrote a couple of crowns of sonnets)

Are any of those on your website or online elsewhere? I bet they're excellent.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

where else can a person geek out like this and not just be squinted at and shied carefully away from but instead have readers who also like it?

Oh, totally! \o/

Most of the Sentinel sonnets are on my website (linked at the bottom of this page.) Read them with an enormous grain of salt, though; they were a) my first foray into fanwriting of any stripe, and b) written nine years ago. *g* I like "On Fandom" and "Night Moves" best, of those.

Also on my site are a couple of House sonnets, of which Heat is by far my favorite...