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“interficiality” is the very key to the Renaissance as to our
twentieth century.
The celebrated earthy tactility of Rabelais is a massive
backwash of receding manuscript culture.
* A most significant feature of Rabelais as a man on the
frontier between cultures, is the way in which the tactile sense
in him gets such exaggeration as almost to become isolated.
This extreme tactility in him advertises his medievalism by
consciously splattering it against the tidy new visual wall of
print culture. John Cowper Powys in his Rabelais puts it this
way (p. 57):
One exceptional characteristic of Rabelais was his
power, a power possessed also by Walt Whitman, of