Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community  

Go Back   Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community > The Academy > Tilted Knowledge and How-To


 
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
Old 09-18-2003, 01:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
Psycho
 
ElwoodBlues's Avatar
 
Location: Massachusetts
Canterbury tales question

I was reading the prologue to the canterbury tales when i came across a small anomaly. The narrator mentions that he meets 29 people that will travelling with him, but going through his accounts of all the people he met I came up with 31 including the host.

Can anyone account for this?
ElwoodBlues is offline  
Old 09-18-2003, 04:32 PM   #2 (permalink)
Junkie
 
Strange. I always understood that the Canterbury Tales was unfinished.

Mr Mephisto
Mephisto2 is offline  
Old 09-19-2003, 12:03 AM   #3 (permalink)
Psycho
 
ElwoodBlues's Avatar
 
Location: Massachusetts
it was unfinished...but in the prologue, chaucer names everyone going on the pilgramage. if you count all the names he says, you get 31. yet he says 29 people he met going along with him.
__________________
I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said "Fuck it. Cut em up." -Mitch Hedberg, '68-'05

Bauer's the man.
ElwoodBlues is offline  
Old 09-19-2003, 12:11 AM   #4 (permalink)
Psycho
 
Location: Tempe,Az....until I figure things out...
I haven't read this since I was in drama in HS.. but I think only 29 went with him.. I know he met a few more people a long the way.. but there were some that did not go on his travels.

If I am wrong, please let me know. I will have to pick this up again just to get a refresher... an interesting question though
__________________
"Things can only get so bad before they have no choice but to get better.."

Quote:
Nitz Walsh : It's not fair God. Why am I still a virgin?........ Stupid gnome.
BlueBongo is offline  
Old 09-21-2003, 02:18 PM   #5 (permalink)
H12
I'm not about getting creamed, I'm about winning!
 
H12's Avatar
 
Location: K-Town, TN
I believe that it's just from other people he met, and not neccesarily people who traveled with him.
__________________
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle
H12 is offline  
Old 09-21-2003, 02:29 PM   #6 (permalink)
Darth Papa
 
ratbastid's Avatar
 
Location: Yonder
Double check that you're not over-counting people, too. It's been a while, but I seem to remember being confused about how some people on the pilgramage get more than one title.
ratbastid is offline  
Old 09-21-2003, 06:28 PM   #7 (permalink)
Knight of the Old Republic
 
Lasereth's Avatar
 
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Well, I know that Chaucer himself is the narrator for the prologue, but when the actual stories start, the host is the narrator. I guess if the host meets 29 people, then it would be 30, but if Chaucer says that he met 29 people, then it would be 31 with the host. Hell if I know; I remember there being an argument about this in my 12th grade English class.

-Lasereth
__________________
"A Darwinian attacks his theory, seeking to find flaws. An ID believer defends his theory, seeking to conceal flaws." -Roger Ebert
Lasereth is offline  
 

Tags
canterbury, question, tales

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT -8. The time now is 01:17 AM.

Tilted Forum Project

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
© 2002-2012 Tilted Forum Project

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360