Midaeval Fartblogging, or Reading assignment:The Miller’s Tale
now, I’m not the kind who likes to read online, other than blogs. But here’s an exception: The Miller’s Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer. One of the Canterbury tales, it is perhaps the funniest, and is certainly the earliest example of fartblogging I have ever found. And now, like a lot of the classics, it’s available online. I read it in Middle English and was bored stiff, but the modern translation is excellent, without losing any of the flavor of the original. If you’ve read it, you understand,. if you haven’t, read the WHOLE THING, with NO SKIPPING, and enjoy.
Comment after you have read this, and come back and tell me how I’m keeping a centuries old tradition of fartblogging alive.
Og,
I did Canterbury Tales for my A levels; one amongst a surfeit of classics.
It crossed my eyes then, it still crosses my eyes now :o
For well he knew a woman has no beard;
He’d felt a thing all rough and longish haired,
And said, “Oh fie, alas! What did I do?”
“Teehee!” she laughed, and clapped the, window to;
We read the Canterbury Tales in High School. The Reeve’s Tale and the Miller’s Tale were the favorites. After being indoctrinated about how pious and holy people were in the “old days” (where everyone was a monk who sang chant all day), it was a lot of fun to see that they were just like us. Midæval Times, all right.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/fart.html#historicfart
LOL! Great, Bob!