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Gargantua and Pantagruel Rabelais’s farcical and obscene 16th-century novel. [Fr. Lit.: Magill I, 298] See : Ribaldry How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As Rietsch is discussing the status of the linguistic sign, one cannot help but think of another humanist who integrated theological and scientific concerns into his writing: fellow doctor Francois Rabelais's project seems very similar throughout Gargantua and Pantagruel, culminating in the episode of the "thawed words" (Quart Livre 55-56), a Paracelsian notion par excellence. While Crowley claimed his signature phrase was dictated to him via a disembodied entity called Aiwass, it can be traced back to both Rabelais (whose Abbey of Thelema in Gargantua and Pantagruel had a similar slogan) and St. lnterestingly, Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel also tells of sounds which are frozen and then melted. |
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