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KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Omnicide on 19 Dec 2006, 01:27 ---Bugger Chaucer. 800 year old fart gags shouldn't be anyones idea of classic lit.
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There's like, one fart joke in Chaucers entire oeuvre. If you think Chaucers just scatological humoutr or something then seriously fuck you, there's a few of the canterbury tales that are told by rude uncultured people or whatever and so include that and thats it. You might as well complain about the pissingly boring ones like the Monks tale. Chaucer is a fucking master story-teller and one of the sarciest, wittiest motherfuckers in the last 1000 years, barely clipping under Doctor Johnson. He invented fucking english literature. Just because you don't have a clue doesn't mean yous shoudlnt shut the fuck uop.
Omnicide:
And cave paintings are better than Rembrandt because they came first. Of course there's more to Chaucer, any half-educated sod knows that. And hell yes I complain, because cultural importance or not, The Canterbury Tales are drawn-out and mediocre. Wit is fine as the icing on the cake but Chaucer, let's face it, is a cake-less motherfucker. Even without the scatology his work is a half-cut undergraduate's idea of storytelling and social commentary. The Wife of Bath, for christ's sake. Calm down. Internet rage solves nothing!
KharBevNor:
I was not implying some came first shit.
Though I will point out that Rembrandt wasn't that hot. He coudln't light a fuckign scene2 to save his life. I've seen more dynamic shit than Christ on the Sea of Galilee in fucking White Dwarf.
Omnicide:
Ah, substitute Rembrandt for any famed artist: Raphael, Dali, Carravaggio, Picasso, frigging Warhol (alright, maybe not Andy) take your pick. The point (I had a point?) is that Chaucher's only real relevance (to me anyway) is as a landmark of literature, lacking any real entertainment value or artistic merit in and of itself. Do you actually read ol' Geoffrey for pleasure at the end of a long day? You're a braver man than I. Still I can't say much. I read Joyce for fuck's sake. It's serious a problem.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Omnicide on 19 Dec 2006, 06:57 ---Do you actually read ol' Geoffrey for pleasure at the end of a long day?
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Fuck yeah. His poetrys great. it's human, its completely unpretentious because he comes from an era where no one had even thought up that kind of shit. There's just something joyful, vital and fun about Chaucer. I love it.
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