CHAUCER'S PARSON'S TALE, 6 DECADES LATER.....IN A DIFFERENT CONTEXT AND RELEVANCE
R eading some 14th Century Chaucer 'Tales'....lines 416-419...of the Parson's righteous, abstemiously parsimonius story.. from The Canterbury Tales... I remembered the S13 Project Runway 'Rainway Challenge' and some furry, flouncy, feathery, muddy, train-dragging getups from this Season of PR Allstars........The designers could have taken some rather Medieval advice from an early English writer, I think........(with a translation into today's 'English') My reading the old post-Normon Conquest 'Tale' was instigated by my having lingered over some memories of sitting next to Johnny Lowe, recently deceased, in a Chaucer Class during our Sophomore year at Vanderbilt.....after which, Johnny moved toward 18th-19th C. English and American Novels and I, to 17th C. Metaphysical Poetry and English Language Morphology and Linguistics .......before abandoning 'lined' paper for sketchpads, double-weight Medalist Photo Paper and spiral ring-tablets...