Blicero

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

rj wrote:
> 
> > the rest of the group didn't have to
> > read or delete a bunch of posts on Chaucer
> 
> Shame. The "manne of greet auctorite" (can't help saying it like Eric
> Cartman) who pops up at the unfinished end of the 'Hous of Fame' has
> always intrigued me. It's what Chaucer couldn't quite say which marks
> his insights as an advance on those Early Christian and Byzantine
> worldviews.
> 
> best

Cartman?

I don't understand what you mean here by what Chaucer
couldn't quite say. Chaucer was a brave soul in my opinion,
much like Pynchon and Dante, in fact, it The House of Fame
that reminds me most of both. In any event, it's my opinion,
actually, it's the opinion of the man that taught me Chaucer
and the scholarship of the man that taught him, that
Chaucer, at moments subverts his work, claiming that art is
not be believed, trusted with the story, specifically the
story of christianity.