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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Rabelaisian (Was Re: Ngaio Marsh info requested)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.032245.898@eff.org>
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- References: <BzGyG6.2t1@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1992Dec21.211949.24317@eff.org> <-zfr3-#@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:22:45 GMT
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- In article <-zfr3-#@lynx.unm.edu> rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires) writes:
- >> 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.
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- How is this non-Rabelaisian?
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- --Mike
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