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- From: lew@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (lewis.h.mammel..jr)
- Subject: Re: Non-rabelaisian farts
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:46:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.214601.791@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- Summary: I pass some remarks
- References: <1h7fj1INNb5v@morrow.stanford.edu>
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- In article <1h7fj1INNb5v@morrow.stanford.edu>, francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
- > Leslie Troutman answers:
- >
- > Mikw Godwin asks:
- >
- > I'm trying to think of some non-Rabelaisian pieces
- > about farting. Are there any?
-
- I remember a fart record, which in failing actually to be funny,
- is not rabelaisian.
-
- >
- > There is a Mark Twain short story, the name of which escapes
- > me at present. It's *very* bawdy and hilarious. I've been
- > told it's in the most recent Library of America edition of
- > Twain's work. I've got a photocopy at home and can check the
- > title if there's interest.
-
- The title is a date, I think. 1601 maybe. Someone actually posted
- the whole thing once, some years ago. I have a hardcopy of it somewhere.
-
- > It probably won't do. Its Rabelaisian. Actually, we have a problem. It
- > is difficult to imagine anything about farting that is not either
- > Rabelaisian (by Godwin's definition this included the Miller's Tale)
- > or medical. In what civilization has farting not been a joke?
-
- I agree, but how much actual farting is there in Rabelais ?
- I only remember the "fart from a dead donkey" line, and the
- "Salvo of Farts" in the list of Gargantua's games, both in
- the first book.
-
- Rabelais is generally much more outre than mere fart jokes.
- Are there any that are not merely incidental, as the above ?
- I don't remember any great fart-winds, or anything like that.
-
-
- Lew Mammel, Jr.
-