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You’re caught unawares and offered $1000 per correct word if you recite any existing piece of text you know - accumulating up to the point you make your first mistake. How much do you walk away with?

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awesome question. in high school we all had to memorize and recite chaucer’s canterbury tales — in middle english*. it’s still up there somewhere in the ol brain, but now starts to fall apart about ten lines in. so, all told, maybe $100k?! * www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43926/...

The Canterbury Tales: General PrologueWhan that Aprille with his shour e s soot e , The droghte of March hath perc e d to the root e , And bath e d every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú…www.poetryfoundation.org
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Now that’s also dragged something up. I’ve known for a while I have parts of the Canterbury tales in my head - but no idea when from. Best I could do blind though is fragments!