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[thejunipertree]

My World Lit professor can recite the entire prologue of the Canterbury Tales in Middle English. And did part of it for us tonight in class.

PWHOAR. UNF. AND ALL MANNER OF OTHER NOISES. BE STILL MY HEART, PROFESSOR.

Also, I ran at the mouth about the Wife of Bath and played star pupil for the evening. I love me some Chaucer (even though he is, as discussed with Miss J last night, a motherfucker who got told). I was heavily amused by all the students who thought they could get by in a discussion about Beowulf (which we watched last week and were supposed to also read) by talking about things from the film that were not actually in the story. Like how everyone bangs Grendel's mother. NOT IN THE STORY.

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[paranoimia.livejournal.com]

I wonder which professor that was. Could it have been Daniels?
(Wait, you already had him, yes?) Not sure who else it could be.

By the by, not that you're fixin' on going to Rutgers-Camden, but we've got a lady over here whose life is Middle English, Chaucer, and also horses. She's a trip. Had her for Medieval Lit. She made us basically learn the phonetic system of Middle English, and I did part of the Second Shepherd's play in it. Was fun, fun stuff.

By the way, maybe this should be best posted to the bpal forum, but I was wondering if I could call upon your extensive BPAL knowledge base for suggestions for a first purchase. There really is a specific scent I have in mind; it's the smell of a perfume oil I had years ago. I had 'incense' as a search term -- bad idea, really, as 133 hits came up. Wondering if you could possibly point me to a category, as there's a billion choices (lovely as they are).
thanks. sorry for the babble.

[meetzemonsta.livejournal.com]

wonder which professor that was.

Costigan. :D

By the by, not that you're fixin' on going to Rutgers-Camden, but we've got a lady over here whose life is Middle English, Chaucer, and also horses.

Rutger's is actually one of my choices for when I go on to my bachelor's degree. I hear they have a fantastic Human Services program over there and it's closer than Rowan (which is my other choice), so it wouldn't be all that unheard of!

There really is a specific scent I have in mind; it's the smell of a perfume oil I had years ago. I had 'incense' as a search term

There's a couple this could be. Incense and resin are my two favorite notes in perfume. Cathedral is my absolute favorite incensey-type of smell from BPAl; it smells of church incense and is just glorious. But, there are quite a few others that could potentially be it.

If you're free at some point soon, we should get together and I'll let you smell through my collection of bottles. :D