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Chapter Sixty Five: The Road to Canterbury Cathedral

Freedom from disorder requires discipline.
There is no other way to effectively set the sail
unless a skilled sailor takes his place from
a sea of tumultuous mob.

The Sun is Shining Not Quite

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The Canterbury Tales (alternatively titled as Tales of Canterbury) is a collection of twenty four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between the year of our Lord, 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnus opus. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a storytelling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shtine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

It has been suggested that the greatest contribution of The Canterbury Tales to English literature was the popularization of the English vernacular to mainstream literature, as opposed to French, Italian, or Latin. English had, however, been used as a literary language centuries before Chaucer's time (including the works of his contemporaries), and it is unclear to what extent Chaucer was seminal in this evolution of literary preference.

The Tales of Canterbury is generally thought to have been incomplete at the end of Chaucer's life. In the General Prologue, some 30 pilgrims are introduced. According to the prologue, Chaucer's intention was to write four stories from the perspective of each pilgrim, two each on the way to and from their ultimate destination, i.e., Saint Thomas Becket's shrine (making for a total of 120 stories). Although perhaps incomplete, The Canterbury Tales is currently revered as one of the most important works in English literature.

But despite the confusion of documentary pages available for scrutiny, especially through the discerning lens of Comparative Literature, the compilation of the stories within the Tales are, in truth and in fact, incomplete. Not because Geoffrey Chaucer predeceased his entire outline for the completion of the works, but because it was stolen by the Historians of the United States Department of the Past.

Even the Order of Speculations based in Great Britain agreed to this strong supposition, despite the absence of eyewitness acoounts of the actual theft of the said manuscript in question, nor there was any retrieved article pertaining to a recorded voice or actual letters coming from Chaucer himself that will validate these bold claims in historical perspective.

Yet, there comes the publication of more recent verses, as well as the thoughts of poets that span across centuries of generations, visible forms of heritage, and the patrimony of value. Each of the words used in literature are self-evident contribution of the English language to the literary style, achieved through the sophisticated means of expressions coined by convention that embodies creativity and manner of expression that is characteristically unique, playful, and quirky.

The actual content of the Tales, nonetheless, has no indication that those parts allegedly missing was in reality omitted that will substantially change the content of the plot and its subject matter.

However, the materials missing is vital to the cryptic message to the literary inclinations of the educated world that requires conscious awakening, forward looking to the direction of liberating cognizance, and a call for the understanding of the methods of the unseen. The battle of the futuristic civilization has started to further manisfest in the most perilous manner through the methods of time travelling, and posterity may be the ultimate victim of these powerful arsenal of newly developed technological warfare.

Unfortunately, these futurists are hell-bent in revising the true wisdom to be gained from historical accounts and the lessons of war.

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