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- From: jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joann Zimmerman)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Non-rabelaisian farts
- Message-ID: <85870@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 02:34:00 GMT
- References: <1hl902INNmi3@morrow.stanford.edu>
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- In article <1hl902INNmi3@morrow.stanford.edu> Francis Muir,
- francis@oas.stanford.edu writes:
- >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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- I refer Francis (yet again) to David Lodge's _Small World_, in which the
- hero accidentally states that he is writing a monograph on the influence
- of T.S.Eliot on Shakespeare. He is later convinced by some of his fellow
- academics that this is indeed a fruitful idea.
- --
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- "They like sitting around reading all the books there are. And then they
- love arguing about them. Some of those arguments go on for millenium
- after millenium. It just seems to keep them young, for some reason,
- arguing about books." -- Julian Barnes
-
- Joann Zimmerman (jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
-