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| Roodscreed, Father |
Pope Spatulus turned out (to quote this preist) "no better and no worse than one might expect" [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 52].
In English church architecture, the roodscreen is the altar screen that separates the choir from the nave of the church; it usually has a crucifix on it; the name incorporates rood, the Old English word for cross.
Bowen notes that changing screen to screed adds a word meaning: 'a long, monotonous harangue or piece of writing.' "I think the word is often used to insult any piece of writing by suggesting that it is unworthy of whatever its intended name and purpose might be - for example, the editor of a scholarly journal might, in his rejection of a truly atrocious article, refer to it as a screed, but only if he was prepared to be challenged to a duel by the author."
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rood_screen |
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