
Telling It Like It Is
The TLS Podcast
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The Longest Prologue in All of the Canterbury Tales
She is a raconteur. She keeps telling people, even when she's interrupted, she says, I have not yet started my tail. And so you just get the feeling of being in the room with someone who is a master storyteller. There is that little squabble among the other pilgrims during the prologue? They will start talking between themselves and she kind of has to call them to order. But yeah, she really does kind of stand up against these these men who interrupt her not just once but twice. Two times she's interrupted. It's way longer than her tail, isn't it? I mean, the tail is almost like an add-on. Yes
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