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  1. Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!mnemonic
  3. From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
  4. Subject: Re: Ngaio Marsh info requested
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec21.230426.25774@eff.org>
  6. Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
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  9. Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
  10. References: <1h5el3INNsbk@morrow.stanford.edu>
  11. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:04:26 GMT
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  14. In article <1h5el3INNsbk@morrow.stanford.edu> francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
  15. >Mike Godwin writes:
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  17. >    I'm trying to think of some non-Rabelaisian pieces about farting. 
  18. >    Are there any?
  19. >
  20. >Geoffrey Chaucer's *THE CANTERBURY TALES*. The Miller's Tale?
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  22. Technically non-Rabelaisian, I suppose, but, then, so is the piece in
  23. "Tama" to which Jack Campin referred.
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  25. I think there's much "Rabelaisian" humor in Chaucer, though.
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  28. --Mike
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  33. -- 
  34. Mike Godwin,    |"I'm waiting for the one-man revolution
  35. mnemonic@eff.org| The only one that's coming."
  36. (617) 864-0665  |                           
  37. EFF, Cambridge  |                   --Robert Frost 
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