Chaucer & Pynchon are extremely similar authors (especially in Mason & Dixon in which Astrological puns are
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Our contemporary pop understanding of Chaucer is akin to someone in hundreds of years calling The Crying of Lot 49 "unfinished."
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The subversive political subtext of Chaucer is only recently being understood as well:https://www.academia.edu/33615109/A_Southwark_Tale_Gower_the_1381_Poll_Tax_and_Chaucers_The_Canterbury_Tales …
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Basically, we are potentially on the verge of an astrological/hermetic/esoteric renaissance as the internet can collate all of this material
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These subjects have been left for cranks & condemned by "serious academics" for centuries, but artists have always flourished with them.
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The larger issue is that scholars are generally immune to the vision that creates art; cannot grasp how artists think; can't "read signs."
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Can only read labels (hence proliferation of labels)
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