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Originally Posted by susie123
Thank you Professor Slater! I liked the Green Knight...
I've got lots of unread books on my shelves, filed in with the ones I have read (I never get rid of books!). I've turned them upside down so I know where they are. One day I might get round to reading Chaucer, Malory etc etc. Trouble is I keep buying new books - well not new, usually secondhand, but you know what I mean...
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I like the "Green Knight" too ... it reminds me of "Star Trek" ... but I won't get into that. Chaucer is fun ... well the "Tales" are ... always reminds me that we humans haven't changed much since the fourteenth century. Well, maybe they smelled worse ... but their football games were more fun
Even Langland points to a world with which we are familiar, if one looks at it in a certain way (and, it gets me back on topic, with first lines
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A feir feld full of folk fond I ther bitwene,
Of alle maner of men, the mene and the riche,
Worchinge and wandringe, as the world asketh.