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- From: mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon)
- Subject: Re: Non-rabelaisian farts
- Summary: sigh
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.012730.15462@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:27:30 GMT
- References: <1h7fj1INNb5v@morrow.stanford.edu> <1992Dec22.214601.791@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.214601.791@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> lew@cbnewsd.cb.att.com
- (lewis.h.mammel..jr) writes:
-
- >> There is a Mark Twain short story, the name of which escapes
- >> me at present. It's *very* bawdy and hilarious. I've been
-
- >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.
-
- 1603, actually. It is rather tedious, in fact -- amusing to an innocent
- perhaps, but of the nature of a "once funny" unlike Rabelais (or, in what
- *I* at least find a different mode of amusement, Chaucer).
-
- I am perplexed by the voices who seem to think that ANY mode of humor
- on the subject must (by definition?) be Rabelaisian. This would seem
- to ignore the quite specific stylistic usages of that French saint.
- --
- Michael L. Siemon "We honour founders of these starving cities
- mls@panix.com Whose honour is the image of our sorrow ...
- They built by rivers and at night the water
- Running past the windows comforted their sorrow."
-