:: Original Source: Falling into place
:: Next Generation: Picture this: kanji on the
Web
:: Citations
:: Fig.2: Economy looks up
Sign
of the times
Shame and disgust are enjoying their biggest legal comeback since colonial
times: compare Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter with, say, a California
judge in 1990 ordering a man to wear a shirt reading, “I am on felony
probation for theft.”
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Miller’s tale waxes philosophic
In “The Miller’s Tale,” Geoffrey Chaucer describes Alisoun,
the old carpenter’s beautiful young wife, as an object of male desire.
Chaucer calls forth natural images—the slimness of a weasel’s
body, the tenderness of a chicken, the sweetness of fruit—to reveal
her sexuality.
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