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Rabelais · 1532
Canon spine row 53. Rabelais — Gargantua and Pantagruel. Era: 1532–64. Lang: French.
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What this book knows
Rabelais knows that the body, appetite, and laughter are themselves philosophical instruments—carnivalesque excess is serious inquiry.
embodiment
he wallowed and rolled up and down himself in the mire and dirt—in drinking, eating, and sleeping: in eating, sleeping, and drinking
GARGA-RC-067he knew not what to say nor what to do—whether he should cry for the death of his wife or laugh for the joy of his son
GARGA-RC-185education-and-formation
He broke the strongest bows in drawing, took his aim by the eye with the hand-gun, traversed and planted the cannon
GARGA-RC-092white did signify gladness, pleasure, delight, and rejoicing, and the blue, celestial things
GARGA-RC-062obedience-and-authority
they chose rather to erect trophies in the hearts of the vanquished by clemency than by architecture in the lands conquered
GARGA-RC-154too feeble and dissolute facility in pardoning evildoers giveth them occasion to commit wickedness afterwards more readily
GARGA-RC-157Illuminates
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