I have a postcard on my desk that shows a cartoon of William Shakespeare holding a yellow mobile phone and listening to the words "... if you want 'to be', press 1.... if you want 'not to be', press 2....". Always makes me smile.
In the metro on the way to work, I continued reading the Miller's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'. It's gripping stuff - I kid you not - and it had just got to an exciting bit when the train arrived at my stop.
Amazing when you think, isn't it - to travel to work at a modern office, chuckling over the thoughts ol' Geoff wrote back in 1380-something! More than six centuries old yet the words still leap off the page, the pictures are just as vivid, the sketches of human follies and foibles still relevant today.
I wonder if he knew, ol' Geoff, that we'd still read his words in 2005? Could he ever have imagined that? I'm sure Shakespeare read them. You can see his storytelling style grew out of there.
The Canterbury Tales would have made a superb blog.
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