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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
Girl Of The

#writing #literature #chaucer #canterbury #tales
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) was well-travelled and highly educated. He was as familiar with Latin and French as he was with English, and he had little trouble in learning enough Italian to absorb the literary tradition of Italy during his visits to that country. It is therefore hardly surprising to find that stories from the literature of France and Italy, and from the Classical tradition, appear in the Canterbury Tales, adapted to a greater or lesser degree.
- For the Clerk’s Tale of “patient Griselda”, Chaucer uses a story told in Latin by Petrach (1304-74), and this is actually cited in the short prologue to the Tale. However, Petrach is known to have used Boccaccio’s Decameron as his own source, this being a work with which it is believed Chaucer was not familiar. For the Clerk’s Tale, Chaucer sticks quite closely to the story as told by Petrach.

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wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation from Gaiman, Neil

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) British fabulist
Sandman, Book 3. Dream Country, # 19 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” [Dream] (1990)

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Sandman, Book 3. Dream Country, # 19 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" [Dream] (1990) - Gaiman, Neil | WIST Quotations

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

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z428@loma.ml
Kristian

5pm and on. Sunday afternoon, French movies, red wine. And then you find yourself out again, blinded by an almost setting sun in a crowded street. There's a new Corea style restaurant nearby, with a North African waiter serving a bunch of young couples lost to the silence of their smartphones. Another warm day amidst the farewell of this summer, and still there's a certain cloudy sadness in all the people-shaped small universes, travelling these avenues, crossing each others paths without really getting to know each other. But maybe that's just how a biased mind perceives the world on Sunday afternoons, after having red wine and watching French movies.

#outerworld #afternoon_city_blues #sundays #tales_of_the_setting_sun

#afternoon city blues #tales of the setting sun

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adamblewett@diasp.org
Adam Blewett

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#writing #painting #tales

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david@spyurk.am
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Charles Serking:: Okay, let's begin. Forget the bullshit and get into the so-called #art... #Style ...
[Audience is restless and an unseen voice yells out, "We love you, Charlie!" as he guzzles wine from a brown bag]

Charles Serking: Style is the answer to everything... a fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without style. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art. Bullfighting can be an art. Boxing can be an art. Loving can be an art. Opening a can of sardines can be an art.
[The audience becomes restless again and an unseen voice cries, "Come on!"]

Charles Serking: Not many have style. Not many can keep style. I have seen dogs with more style than men - though not many #dogs have style. #Cats have it in abundance.
[He guzzles more wine from his brown bag]

#Tales of Ordinary #Madness
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