Pardoner
"The Pardoner's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. In the order of the Tales, it comes after The Physician's Tale and before The Shipman's Tale; it is prompted by the Host's desire to hear something positive after the physician's depressing tale. The Pardoner initiates his Prologue—briefly accounting his methods of swindling people—and then proceeds to tell a moral tale. The tale itself is an extended exemplum. Setting out to kill Death, three young men encounter an Old Man who says they will find him under a nearby tree. When they arrive they discover a hoard of treasure and decide to stay with it until nightfall and carry it away under the cover of night. Out of greed, they murder one another. The tale and prologue are primarily concerned with what the Pardoner says is his "theme": Radix malorum est cupiditas ("Greed is the root of [all] evils").
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Why This Artist
Pardoner has 53K listeners but only 209 platform followers (ratio 255:1) — organic discovery is doing all the work. Fans explore the full catalog, not just singles. A post-punk act in the sonic world of Interpol and Weezer.
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Interpol · Weezer · The Hives · ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead · Kaiser Chiefs