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From: Lily Rose <lilyrose@mail.sjcsf.edu>
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Joshua Badgley wrote:

> Hmmm, would Aberdeen's (sp?) Bestiary work for period storytelling, do you
> think?  And Aesop's would work, wouldn't they?  Any other suggestions for
> period short stories?

Don't know Aberdeen's Bestiary; I'll check it out.

> Also, has anyone tried Chaucer in the original and how did it turn out?
> I was contemplating reciting from that once.

I have told stories from both Chaucer and Boccaccio to good effect,
although I don't recite them, I just tell them. 

--
Lady Viviana Rowe			lilyrose@mail.sjcsf.edu
Barony of al-Barran, Kingdom of the Outlands

Excelsior!



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