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- From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
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- Subject: Re: Non-rabelaisian farts
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 01:54:03 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- Barclay Elizabeth Blanchard writes:
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- Mike Godwin asks:
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- I'm trying to think of some non-Rabelaisian pieces
- about farting. Are there any?
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- Has anyone mentioned The Miller's Tale? (I haven't been
- reading rab much lately.)
-
- Yes indeed. No less than your humble scribe. However, MG disallowed
- it as being non-non-Rabelaisian, and I think we are still scratching
- our heads -- woops! sorry!! our balls, trying to work out just what
- Mike meant. For those not inclined to read Chaucer because of difficulties
- with the language, let me recommend that very excellent recording by
- Caedmon of two of the Tales. Stanley Holloway reads *The Miller's Tale*
- and Michael MacLiammoir *The Pardoner's Tale*. They represent The Olde
- Barde at his satiric (satyric?) best, and they both employ voices that
- are happy fakes of how we in Merrie Englande used to speak.
-
- RABworm
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- >
- >--
- >Barclay Elizabeth Blanchard barclay@rail9000.gatech.edu
- >"I've been laughed at by some of the funniest people."
- >--Lissie, Alice Walker's _The Temple of My Familiar_
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