I've so been looking forward to my Canterbury Tales class at the library: finally a chance to have someone knowledgeable point out the key features and themes and historical references so I can understand and enjoy it better. I knew the class was coming up soon, but I hadn't paid much attention when I wrote down the date.
It's on Easter afternoon. Really, who does that? Sigh. No class for me.
I mean, celebrating the whole ridiculously-important and unprecedented act of God taking on flesh, living sinlessly, willingly dying with the weight of humanity's sin on Him, and coming back to life in a death-conquering, undeserved-life-and-grace-giving act of glorious power is a bit cooler than explicating Chaucer. Not to mention we'll be having wicked good food.
But still.
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Sadness....I'm sorry.
I've read and enjoyed traditionally difficult classics like Odyssey, Ulysses, Moby Dick, etc. But I couldn't make it through Canterbury Tales. So, you have my admiration for even *wanting* to take a class in Chaucer.
BTW, it's probably good that the secular world ignores Easter (for the most part). If they didn't ignore it, they would completely commercialize it like they have done with Christmas. And, as you pointed out, the Easter story is much too cool for that!
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