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- From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
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- Subject: JAZ lodges a complaint. Was non-rabelaisian farts
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 04:23:19 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- Joann Zimmerman writes:
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- Francis Muir writes (of some remarks by Mike Godwin):
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- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- Now let me see, isn't Lodge the one who is funny, Catholic and gay?
- I suppose if Zimmers says to read, then read I shall, since I know
- no bookworm who sports her erudition with such grace.
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- RABworm
-