Whether he's being sincere or ironic is a matter of much debate for the
last several centuries. But he was also implicated as a diplomat in the
regimes of his time, despite possible lollard sympathies. The point I was
making, I thought, was not that all sins are equal but that we usually
place on the margins of our attention disagreeable things that would
interfere with the pleasures also available in a text.
At 08:32 PM 9/19/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>I thought that was what you might mean...
>
>I really don't have the time for the next few days and nor do i claim to be
>a Chaucer scholar - just an admirer; but I have to say that I wouldn't set
>much store by those lines, Mark
>
>& what Chaucer is mischievously recanting (without suppressing that which he
>apparently recanted) hardly bears comparison with Master Spencer's treatment
>of the Irish
>
>L
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: 19 September 2000 20:19
>Subject: Re: Finneran's Yeats
>
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>| Look at the last page of your Canterbury Tales.
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>| At 06:18 PM 9/19/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>| >?
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>| >L
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>| >----- Original Message -----
>| >From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
>| >To: <[log in to unmask]>
>| >Sent: 19 September 2000 18:00
>| >Subject: Re: Finneran's Yeats
>| >
>| >
>| >Chaucer
>| >| recanted,
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