Remember in The Music Man when the townsladies are up in arms about the fact that Marian's library has Chaucer, Rabelais, and Balzac? Well, here's the Rabelais they were probably concerned about. A baudy, crude series of comedies about a pair of giants. What an odd thing to have become a literary classic.
Aaron challenged me to find 1000 works of art, each better than that scene in Ferris Bueller where Cameron looks at the Seurat painting. So here they are, one by one, till what's done is done. © Jon Azose 2010-2012
Saturday, July 23, 2011
210. Gargantua and Pantagruel
Remember in The Music Man when the townsladies are up in arms about the fact that Marian's library has Chaucer, Rabelais, and Balzac? Well, here's the Rabelais they were probably concerned about. A baudy, crude series of comedies about a pair of giants. What an odd thing to have become a literary classic.
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