Geoffrey Chaucer interviews Margaret Atwood in Middle English:
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GC: What maner of writinge ys moost beneficial for the worlde?Go. Be amused.
MA: That ys beyond my power to saye. Manye bookes have done great harm, but those are of the political-tract kynde. Howevir, those works of invencion and poetrye that containe both laughter and instruccion will more prevail.
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