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September 03, 2003
The Governour's fyn castel for to wyn Only the National Review's John Derbyshire would write a parody of the California recall based on The Canterbury Tales. The raucous, bawdy Chaucer masterpiece turns out to be just the right basis of comparison for our classic modern crazyness.
The really impressive thing, though, is that Derbyshire wrote the whole column in a very effective parody of the now quite obscure Middle English that Chaucer was working in. That's a decent technical achievement even beyond the political content or the parody.
Chaucer wrote this somewhere around 1390. Most people now read "translations" of this poetry that is today barely recognizable as English. Indeed, searching Amazon, it's somewhat difficult even to find the original text among all the translated versions.
Then again, ol' Derb is the kind of guy who'd write a whole book length biography of an obscure mathematician from even a little before Chaucer's time.
