[lbo-talk] Too Old for Rap (was Lumpen)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Jan 30 09:14:40 PST 2006


Charles Brown wrote:
>
> >Actually, the Canterbury Tales, Knight's Tale, rhymes like a white sword
> >rap.
>
> And it's full of obscenity too! I wonder how the Trad Vals types deal
> with the fact that so much canonical literature is full of sex and
> sexuality, and not always of the plain vanilla kind.

A few years ago a couple in a small town near B/N began writing letters to the local paper attacking the teaching of Chaucer in high school. One or the other sends a letter every month or so: they could be reprinted in the Onion without change.

Carrol



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