# Gene, meet Geoffrey. Oh, you already know each other. *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 14 Apr 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### William Ansley *14 Apr 2001, 00:35* I have just finished listening to a series of taped lectures called _The Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer_*. Somewhere in this series, the lecturer talks about how Chaucer inserts himself as a character, the narrator, in _The Canterbury Tales_. He questions how much we should believe the narrator and says, "Chaucer may be the first unreliable narrator in English literature." This gave me quite a start. Well, well. Wolfe has an even longer and more distinguished literary legacy than I realized. William Ansley *These lectures were given by Professor Seth Lerer and published by The Teaching Company . I thought they were quite good, but I had a humanities deprived education. I don't know how much they would have to offer to someone who had already taken a course on Chaucer. ---