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|    August Abolins to Mike Powell    |
|    When reality is surreal,    |
|    12 May 22 04:04:04    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 627c5d00       REPLY: 3600.klatsch@1:2320/105 26caac38       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20220304       EID: ..       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2022-02-13       On 4/24/2022 10:04 AM, between "Mike Powell - AUGUST ABOLINS":       >> In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales       told       >> y a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside       Florence       >> ile waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25       mi       >> ion people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like       fable       >       > Take out the Black Death part, and it sounds similar to the Caterbury Tales.       >       > Mike              I never actually read the Canterbury Tales. But a quick review of the plot       DOES indeed sound like something similar. I might have to give the CT a try       some day.              ---         * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 120/340       SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/305 330 331 153/757 7715 154/10 214/22 218/0       SEEN-BY: 218/1 109 650 700 720 810 840 850 860 870 880 221/1 6 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 111 206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 664 700       SEEN-BY: 266/512 282/1038 292/854 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364       SEEN-BY: 341/66 342/200 396/45 460/58 712/848 770/1 4500/1       PATH: 221/6 218/840 700 229/426           |
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