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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
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- Subject: Re: Non-rabelaisian farts
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.234711.1844@eff.org>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 23:47:11 GMT
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- In article <1hl902INNmi3@morrow.stanford.edu> francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
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- >How on earth is Chaucer "like Rabelais"? And that is pretty much my point.
- >Gargantua & Pantagruel are not on our earth. They are giant, grotesque
- >denizens of terra incognita. Contrariwise, Chaucer's Pilgrims have their
- >feet solidly planted on terra firma. Chaucer's language is the everyday
- >language of the folk he knew. Rabelais' language is outlandish. In any
- >case, with Chaucer living some one and a half centuries before Rabelais,
- >the notion of refering to Geoffrey Chaucer as "Rabelaisian" approaches
- >a gaffe of formidable proportions.
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- Nevertheless, both writers relished humor grounded in farts and other
- bodily functions. And that was pretty much *my* point.
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- --Mike
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