Chaucer’s lifetime, and his family’s prosperity, overlaps with the initial cataclysmic arrival and cyclic recurrence of plague. While Chaucer was not born into the landed gentry, both of his parents inherited significant land after plague killed all of his London relatives in 1439, and their new wealth likely enabled Chaucer’s career at court (Turner).
Ah, with the Arctic frozen methane starting to melt and escape, a character from the book “Denver is Missing” might be apropos of the times, and NOT Covid-related, so more obscure. >^..^<
The Old Wolf almost 4 years ago
Poe’s “Mask of the Red Death?” How about dressing up as an English professor? (The Scarlet Plague by Jack London)
eromlig almost 4 years ago
I was betting on Camus. Now, I’m awaiting Friday/Saturday with baited breath. (Yes, I ate cheese.)
homfencing almost 4 years ago
Andromeda Strain?
Colorado almost 4 years ago
If not The Stand what about The Andromeda Strain?
danketaz Premium Member almost 4 years ago
There’s always the Decameron, though possibly too adult for Caulfield.
Sanspareil almost 4 years ago
Go as a bloated orange idiot with a tribble on his head!
nosirrom almost 4 years ago
COVID the Barbarian?
sappha58 almost 4 years ago
He could wear a plague doctor’s mask / outfit:
https://www.google.com/search?q=plague+doctor+mask&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ALeKk02KAIT9zfdXSRSkPQrDMObBulZNeA:1603961182722&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi15p2EtdnsAhVDlFkKHTWlAKEQ_AUI3wMoAQ&biw=1125&bih=635
jpayne4040 almost 4 years ago
I hope Jef hasn’t picked out some obscure book no one’s ever heard of.
MS72 almost 4 years ago
1,2,3, One-Two-Three, 1,2,3, …
rf_in_va almost 4 years ago
Or H.G. Wells book “In the Days of the Comet”…
rshive almost 4 years ago
Try going as Matilda. Then the waltz would be natural.
MichaelHelwig almost 4 years ago
How about Mein Kampf?
33Angel almost 4 years ago
I’ve read The Stand twice. GOD! What an amazing book…
Ontman almost 4 years ago
Stupidity is in epidemic proportions this year.
mfrasca almost 4 years ago
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
SukieCrandall Premium Member almost 4 years ago
The physician, one of the aunts, or even the white lie in
Was it Heaven? Or Hell?by Mark Twain
may be a good one.
SukieCrandall Premium Member almost 4 years ago
At age 8 he is THOROUGHLY unlikely to have read the two references in Chaucer.
Nothing is quite like having the competition gone:
https://www.popmatters.com/chaucer-and-the-plague-2646019619.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3
includes:
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Chaucer’s lifetime, and his family’s prosperity, overlaps with the initial cataclysmic arrival and cyclic recurrence of plague. While Chaucer was not born into the landed gentry, both of his parents inherited significant land after plague killed all of his London relatives in 1439, and their new wealth likely enabled Chaucer’s career at court (Turner).
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asrialfeeple almost 4 years ago
Love in the time of Covid-19?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 4 years ago
You want obscure then the Scarlet Plague by Jack London will do.
Kind&Kinder almost 4 years ago
Contagion.
ArtisticArtemis almost 4 years ago
Ah, with the Arctic frozen methane starting to melt and escape, a character from the book “Denver is Missing” might be apropos of the times, and NOT Covid-related, so more obscure. >^..^<
CoffeeBob Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Could be Nehemiah Scudder from Heinlein’s “If This Goes On” – yet, too close for comfort to me.