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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais’s farcical and obscene 16th-century novel. [Fr. Lit.: Magill I, 298]
See : Ribaldry


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To eat like that now might seem Pantagruelian, and there would be the additional, inevitable risk of falling into the custom of the daily siesta.
Witness in brief some of the evidence: each was handsome, suffered physical handicaps, but was physically aggressive; each was a hedonist (from cross-dressing to bi-sexuality, Pantagruelian exploits in meat and drink); each was awed by and drawn to the horrors of war; each relished virulent attacks against fellow writers; each indulged in digressive literary forms and held to self-assured insistence upon dour world views.
Happy New Year, Brian Bogus I SUFFERER severely from compounded sesquipedalophobia (the fear of long words), and I consider the Pantagruelian sentiments penned by your clearly leptocephalic self-confessed deipnosophistical epistemologists to be no more than unmitigated effluvium.
 
 
 
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