Friday, February 27, 2009

The best (least worst) "Canterbury Tales" story

Out of the small selection of the book we have read so far, I personally find the Miller's tale to be the best, for one simple reason: It is one of the crudest tales in the book, which makes it the funniest. In most of the books I've read in English class, the subject matter is mostly of rather pure moral standards, and becomes a surprisingly effective sleeping drug, with no risk of addiction, unless you actually like subject yourself to boredom. As such, it becomes rather refreshing to see the drunken tale of an astrologist, Nicholas, who dupes a carpenter into believing a cataclysmic flood will occur, so as to sleep with his young wife. As it so happens, she is also courting a parish clerk, Absalom; however, she falls for Nicholas, and hatches a plan with to get rid of the clerk. He ends up kissing her bum, and brands Nicks when he attempts to do the same thing. His cries for water fool the carpenter, camped out in a hanging tub, to cut the cords holding him up, and he falls to the ground, not the relatively soft floodwaters he was expecting.

Well, it's certainly better than "A Raisin In The Sun." *Yawn*

That, and I probably should stop spending so much time on the Interweb.