Word: satyricon
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...theory, already secondhand, that the real Jesus was a political zealot named Simon Bar Gi'ora, that the four Gospels were really an allegory of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Rome. Not Petronius Arbiter but his more rapscallion son, thinks Author Rascoe, was the author of the famed Satyricon, earliest picaresque novel. The neglected Lucian, great debunker of his day (2nd Century), he calls "the most modern of all writers of antiquity," compares him favorably with Anatole France, Bernard Shaw, H. L. Mencken. Though D. H. Lawrence "gives him the pip" in practical matters, on the whole he approves...
Travelers, in the know, who as a rule keep several years ahead of the Baedecker tourists and Raymond-Whitcomb enthusiasts have found Losinj. Trau (Petronius's Satyricon) Korcula. Hvar and Dubrovnik-Kupari in Jugoslavije as smart as Brioni and Cap Antibes and without, the sourness of the Lido...
...Satyricon is an account of the wanderings and fantastic adventures of a coaple of tramp students whose lecheries, boozing, brawling, and generally disorderly conduct along the high roads of Italy are graphically recounted in the current slang of the period. Their activities are all charmingly debased and come under the main heads of alcoholic, criminal and amourous, and include almost constant indulgence in those pursuits which secured for two cities of biblical fame a bad reputation and a pyrotechnical destruction...
...Vengeance; also, an attempt was made to interfere with the private performance of Schnitzler's " Riegen," also-within a few months judges in New York have been called upon to express their opinion of Cabell's Jurgen, D. H. Lawrence's three latest novels, the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter. The law allows artists more liberty than they realize, for proceedings against them are usually extralegal. The statute in New York, the result of the efforts of the late Anthony Comstock has received a liberal interpretation. Ordinarily, to be suppressed: (1) a book, play, or picture must...
...want to find out more about that, you must ask Freud, who, no doubt, knows more about fairy tales than most of us. . ." I suppose that we may soon overhear from the nursery, "Now, Mary, stop crying, and mama'll read you some pretty stories out of the Satyricon." Incidentally, I wonder what complex led Mr. Train to use "woken" as a past participle...