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- From: rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires)
- Subject: Re: Ngaio Marsh info requested
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 02:30:33 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- > mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
- >
- >I'm trying to think of some non-Rabelaisian pieces about farting. Are
- >there any?
- >
-
- *Are* there any? Ha!
-
- [in the middle of necromantic summoning of the devils,
- who are crowding in among them]
- ...I looked at Agnolino Gaddi, whose eyes were starting from
- their sockets in his terror, and who was more than half
- dead, and said to him: "Agnolo, in time and place like this
- we must not yield to fright, but do the utmost to bestir
- ourselves; therefore, up at once, and fling a handful of
- that asafetida upon the fire." Agnolo, at the moment when
- he moved to do this, let fly such a volley from his breech,
- that it was far more effectual than the asafetida.[1]
- The boy, roused by that great stench and noise, lifted his
- face a little, and hearing me laugh, he plucked up courage,
- and said the devils were taking to flight tempestuously. ...
- -- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Chapter LXIV
- [1] Fece una istrombazzata di coregge con tanta abundanzia
- di merda.
-
- >--Mike
-
- rms
-