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modern master of medieval tactile mosaic, Rabelais expected
the public to devote its life to study of his work. “I intend each
and every reader to lay aside his business, to abandon his
trade, to relinquish his profession, and to concentrate wholly
upon my work.” Joyce said the same thing, and like Rabelais,
was free with the new medium in an especial way. For Joyce,
throughout Finnegans Wake , television is “the Charge of the
Light Brigade,” and the whole world is comprised in a single
book.
In addition Rabelais gives the reader a good tactile drubbing:
And therefore, to make an end of this Prologue, even as I
give my selfe to an hundred Pannier-fulls of faire devils,
body and soul, tripes and guts, in case that I lie so much
as one single word in this History, after the like manner