Word: pantagruel
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...BEST THING that I can do here is to pile on the kudos and to try to explain Gargantua to the curious and the hyperanalytical. The script is based on Pantagruel, a book written by Rabelais in 1532, and its subsequent prequel, Gargantua, written in 1534. Watson, a Medieval History and Literature concentrator, turned it into a script with a little help from his tutor...
Stories about Johnson's coarse man ners could ruffle the pages of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel. The wildest is repeated by Coates Redmon, a Washington journalist and widow of Hayes Redmon, a member of Johnson's White House staff: "One day Bill [Moyers] telephoned him [Hayes] to come quick to the President's bedroom. I think Lynda Bird was in there, and Mrs. Johnson, and Marie Fehmer was taking dictation. The President was lying on his side in his bed and facing the group. There was a nurse on the other side, the three television...
...habit, and went absent without leave on a grand tour of the French universities. He became first a theologian, then a lawyer, then a doctor-in all, one of the most erudite men of his age. He was almost 40 when he began writing his tales of Gargantua and Pantagruel, partly for love of writing, but partly for need of money...
Oracle of the Bottle. His Gargantua and Pantagruel is the history of a dynasty of easygoing giants. At Gargantua's birth (from his mother's left ear), 17,913 cows were required for his feeding. Pantagruel, his son, needed only 4,600 cows, but he was so vigorous that he ate one of the cows, and had to be bound in his crib with the chain later used for young Lucifer when he had the colic. When Pantagruel goes to Paris, he meets Panurge, a gay dog who knows 63 ways to make money and 214 to spend...
Panurge has a flea in his ear who keeps suggesting that he get married. With Pantagruel and a bawdy monk named Friar John of the Funnels, Panurge sets out for India to consult the Oracle of the Holy Bottle on the matter. On the way they encounter a race of people whose noses are formed like the ace of clubs, and a nation that eats & drinks nothing but wind...