Literary works....which one ...

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I had to learn Chanteclere e Pertelote once (I can't remember how to spell it now!) in it's original middle english.

What you said JazzManJim.

Nothing but unintelligible rubbish...

Is it just the Old English style, or the story as well?

The reason I'm asking: I have a version of the Canturbury Tales that bills itself as a "new prose translation". I'm just wondering if that might be worth reading.

 

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And for whoever mentioned "Godel, Escher, Bach", way to go! I recommend that book to *everyone*, not only as a great introduction to math, logic, music, computers, and how we think, but also as a very profound-thought maker.

I certainly enjoyed it, but I don't knoe if it's for everyone. I try to imagine my mom reading it and I can't stop laughing

 

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Re: Re: White Bear Lake

Nope.

Hardback was, as I recall, a stark black cover with a white rectangle in which was a picture. There was a lakescape, also very stark..and may have been kind of a drawing...a couple trees on the back of the lake and a lonely cabin. The lettering was red.

That's the image I'm getting. I'll admit, I read it ten years ago.

That is probably the one...black, hardback, white lettering.

I found it on a dusty bottom shelf of the bookstore about ten years ago and found it rather thought provoking as I was doing child protective/foster care adn adoption work then.

Hmmmm