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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 10:27 PM
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Get thee to the British Library (with apologies to Shakespeare)
The BL has scanned and posted the two Caxton editions of The Canterbury Tales online for the viewing. Treasures indeed...

http://www.bl.uk./treasures/caxton/homepage.html

You can view the two texts side-by-side or one at a time... I'm drooling!
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burrowowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 10:43 PM
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1. NEAT! COOL!
THANKS!!!!
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:07 PM
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2. I thought the BL was way cool
when, in the same room, I could see lyrics to a Beatles song scrawled on a scrap of paper, diaries in Charlotte and Emily Bronte's handwriting, and the order signed by Elizabeth I ordering the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. It was overwhelming.

Oh, and if that wasn't enough, the Rosetta stone was just upstairs.
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L.A.dweller Donating Member (477 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:16 PM
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3. That is really beautiful.
700 years ago writers didn't have distractions like tv and the internet to keep them from creating great literature. Makes you wonder what could i be accomplishing if it weren't for this, that, and the other.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:24 PM
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4. A funny thing I noticed...
there are two Lisa Simpson avitars here, plus I voted for Lisa as my favorite Simpson in that poll a day or so ago...
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L.A.dweller Donating Member (477 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:28 PM
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5. I missed that poll
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