Jul 22, 2008
Story Timeline: 80 days
Pardon me while I quote Garner's at length. I promise I'm going somewhere with this. If trudging through long blocks of quoted text isn't your thing, try reading it aloud in a fake British accent (or, if you have a real British accent, a fake American accent). It works for me. Anyway, Garner takes the following excerpt from Anthony Kamm's Collins Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, which was published in 1993: Hoccleve, Thomas (c.1389-c.1450) poet, began to work as a clerk/copyist in the Privy Seal in about 1378, and had his salary raised to ₤10 a year in 1399, and to ₤13 6s.8d in 1408. This, with his private means of ₤4 a year, should have been adequate, but his pay was often late and he lived a gay bachelor life—dressing fashionably, travelling to the office by boat, eating and dining in taverns, and entertaining...
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