Monday, January 23, 2012

My Medieval iPod

Ok! So I've been on a religious kick lately. I'm sorry. I simply can't wait until the region I live in, earns another nickname apart from "The Bible Belt". That's all. I'll finish my Atheism flyers and stick them by the front door and then I'll be rid of my demon. For a while anyway...

I love the age of information. We're reading Chaucer in my Medieval Literature class and although it is possible to read the entire The Canterbury Tales in Middle English, it is extremely tedious. What did I do? Not only did I find a website made just for the reading of The Canterbury Tales but I also found about three decent Modern English books for my Kindle. And oh yes, my nipples are hard. So I bought the Kindle version of The Canterbury Tales translated by Joseph Glaser. Not having brought my Kindle with me to school today, however, I downloaded the version to my Kindle app for my iPod and on that, I was able to read along during class and not feel lost. It's the stuff wet dreams are made of! Don't be a hater.

Also I was able to google, "repetition of words in literature" because the professor had momentarily forgotten the term, "anaphora" and I looked really smart until he asked if I had remembered the term myself and I confessed that I had not. All was not lost however since he was impressed that I googled it on "that little thing," my iPod.

Who could have imagined that modern technology would make us closer to medieval literature? Chaucer probably didn't.

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