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because ye were neither hot nor cold, I will spew you from my mouth

Another pub(l)ic spectacle from the New Pantagruel

Pantagruel for the Present

September 23, 2004

“[Rabelais] welcomes us to his feast on what might be Inflation Sunday during Hypocrites Holiday in the Year of Warmonger, two thousand four, or maybe fifteen thirty-two, it’s much the same, since swilling, swiving, corruption and conniving, fanaticism, bigotry, and bloodshed haven’t changed, and the sports bars are full of opinion.” -William H. Gass on the new English translations of Gargantua and Pantagruel in Harper’s Oct. 2004.

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