A Very Good Idea

Just dropping in, my friends, in this busy busy time (oh, how grateful I am to be a Useful Person), to let you know that if any of you are wondering what I might need for my birthday, what it is I need is a set of Hieronymus Bosch Action Figures.

Oh, baby.

(Sam, what you want to do at the moment is be Very Grateful that Dutch isn't one of my languages, cause if it was, I would SO be pulling out the credit card.)

(Though now that I think of it, surely Anglo-Saxon and German combined should allow me to parse some of this stuff on out.)

(No! I know! Let's use the Power of the Internet!)

The text

De in artistiek opzicht wereldberoemde geniale voorloper van het surrealisme, was in zijn tijd uniek en radicaal vernieuwend. Hiëronymus, kortweg Jeroen, Bosch werd ten tijde van de overgang van de middeleeuwen naar de renaissance, geboren te ‘s-Hertogenbosch in het hertogdom Brabant.
Bosch plaatst fantastische motieven in een vijandige wereld vol mystiek, vanuit de overtuiging dat de mens door eigen domheid en zondigheid ten prooi is gevallen aan de duivel. Hij houdt met cerebrale ironie en magische symboliek de wereld een spiegel voor, en ontziet daarbij niemand. Hij richt zijn spottende pijlen evengoed op de hypocrisie van de clerus als op de mateloosheid van de adel en de zedeloosheid van het volk.
De stijl van Jeroen Bosch komt voort uit de traditie van de boekverluchtingen (middeleeuwse handschrift-illustraties). De karikaturale verbeelding van het kwaad kent aspecten van bezwering, maar dient tevens als confronterende waarschuwing op theologische gronden.

which I cannot, alas, read, turns out, according to the Alta Vista translation function, to say

In artistic respect the wereldberoemde brilliant preamble of surrealism, were in its time unique and radically renewing. Hi?nymus, kortweg Jeroen, bosch became at the time of the passage of the middle ages to the Renaissance, born at s hertogenbosch in duchy brabant. Bosch fantastic aims in a hostile world place full mystiek, from the conviction that people have fallen by own nonsense and peccability at prey to the devil. He represents a mirror with cerebral irony and magical symboliek the world, and spares thereby nobody. He aims sneering arrows evengoed on the hypocrisy of the clerus have been degree-false-driven as on of the nobility and the zedeloosheid of the people. The style of Jeroen bosch originates from the tradition of the boekverluchtingen (medieval grapheme illustrations). The caricatural imagination of angry has aspects of bezwering, but serves tevens as facing warning on theological grounds.

Yes! This is SO TRUE! People have fallen by own nonsense and peccability! Happens to me every day! The caricatural imagination of angry has aspects of bezwering! Yes!

Come on, guys! Where do I send the money? I want the entire set! Cerebral irony! Sneering arrows! The zedloosheid of the people!

(Thanks to Mimi Smartypants for the link.)