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Article: A telephonic Canterbury tale with a happy ending.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 30, 2002
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Byline: George H. Hanford
The Canterbury Society is not, as its name suggests, an academic coterie of religious or Chaucerian scholars. It is in fact something quite different. More on that later. As its symposiarch (more about that later as well), I recently succumbed to a mail-order offer and purchased 100 pens with the society's name inscribed thereon ... and thereby hangs "A Canterbury Tale."
Before the pens were even distributed, the pen company began to bombard me with other offers - date books, calendars, key rings, refrigerator magnets, and more. When I resisted, the pen people, perhaps in retribution, sold my address to other mail-order types.
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