Word: parcelsus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...setting is not Victorian England but a modern university in Ontario a cloistered enclave of Renaissance scholarship housing characters whose somber public lives belie the sensational reality of their private existences Maria, a graduate student who insists on interpreting all events in terms of Rabelais and Parcelsus, narrates half the chapters. The others are voiced by the Reverend Simon Dar-court, a professor of religion who is writing a series of meditations on the modern university...
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