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    A Selection From the Memoirs of Leopold LaPied
    A Selection From the Memoirs of Leopold LaPied
    A Selection From the Memoirs of Leopold LaPied
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    A Selection From the Memoirs of Leopold LaPied

    By B.B. Irvine

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    Found in an old shoebox, this exercise in academic satire features the section in which an obscure medieval author travels with Geoffrey Chaucer and the pilgrims to Canterbury, as Chaucer chronicled in The Canterbury Tales. Leopold LaPied was there, although he did not make it into the Tales. Included is an afterword, commentary, and updated afterword.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherB.B. Irvine
    Release dateMar 15, 2013
    ISBN9781301226788
    A Selection From the Memoirs of Leopold LaPied
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    B.B. Irvine

    B.B. Irvine was born in New York City in 1959. He graduated from the High School of Music and Art N.Y. (1976 music), New York State University at Stony Brook (1980 B.A. liberal arts), and in 1982 received a certificate as a Physician Assistant from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina. He has worked in settings including emergency medicine, AIDS research, and addiction treatment in New York City where he lives. In 1994 he earned a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do from Grandmaster Richard Chun. His novels and screenplays evidence his knowledge of people and frequently weave medicine, science, history, romance, and martial arts into the action.

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      A Selection From the Memoirs of Leopold LaPied - B.B. Irvine

      A Selection from the Memoirs of Leopold LaPied

      by B.B. Irvine

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      Chapter 1 – Introduction Afterword by Updating Afterwordist

      While going through an old shoebox looking for notes on the Jazzmarani carvings, I came across this exercise in academic literature, which I wanted to reproduce for the widest possible audience to miss.

      (Original academic release date October 1975 [75-10.05] – B.B. Irvine, 2013)

      Original Afterword (1976)

      AFTERWORD by Sir Llellington Limeswell, PhD, FRS [1976-10.09]

      Leopold LaPied is certainly one of the most obscure writers of the 1300s. His many manuscripts remain only as tantalizing fragments in musty ruins of medieval monasteries, where he must have been widely read as a popular writer.

      This particular section, relating to the famous Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Canterbury Tales," was found only in 1973 after excavations in the north of France in the former L’Eglise de la Grande Vache de Mere, near the sleepy hamlet of L’Orange Nez.

      The excavation team was led by Professor M. Bain-Occuper, a professor of archaeology and medieval scholar at L’Academie de Vieux Soulieres (Paris). Professor Bain-Occuper remarks, It is a great day that I find manuscript under Gothic carving of Christ. Great day. Mr. Saai Ecrire, in his Great Finds In The North Of France – A Catalogue (Café French Press, 1974) cites this single discovery as one of the truly fortunate ones of the past century.

      There seems little doubt that this story is true. Of course, Mr. Cuisine Sentir, in his book L’Adventures de Matelas (Archeological Finds In Northern France And Their Authenticity, Houghton Mifflin, 1974) gives this manuscript short shrift, referring to it in a contemptuous way as "je n’aime-pas que vous parlez a moi (so much chin

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