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   August Abolins to Mike Powell   
   When reality is surreal,   
   12 May 22 04:04:04   
   
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   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.   
      
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