In Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," the henpecked cock Chauntecleer talks out of both sides of his beak, declaring that woman is man's ruin and also his "joy" and "bliss." His namesake, San Francisco's 12-man choral ensemble Chanticleer, pulled off a similar feat of conceptual legerdemain Friday in "Women, Saintly and Otherwise," their Metropolitan Museum of Art program exploring the ever-shifting images and voices of humanity's feminine half.
P.S. Make better use of your time and reread The Nun's Priest's Tale, featuring literature's most unreliable and least bestial narrator.
P.P.S. Visit the online home of today's Chanticleer (what a bunch of cuties!) and check out their fabulous recordings.
P.P.P.S. I want to move to a civilized country. Maybe I wouldn't even have to cross the Atlantic…
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