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Article: Epitaph for Francois Rabelais.(Brief Article)(Poem)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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EPITAPH FOR FRANCOIS RABELAIS
If anything can sprout
From a dead man rotted out,
And if further generation
Arises from stagnation,
A grapevine will surely take birth
From the belly and the girth
Of good Rabelais, who contrived
Always to drink while alive.
In one suck down the hatch
His gullet could dispatch,
With two shakes and a burp,
More milk than a pig can slurp,
More rivers than Iris can nuzzle,
More waves than a beach can guzzle.
Not even the dawn sun, blinking,
Has seen him when he's not drinking,
And night, however late,
Has seen him in no other state
Because 24/7, no break,
Francois had a ...
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Article: Rabelais's unreadable books. (Francois Rabelais)
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December 22, 1995 ;
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...About twenty-five years ago, in the lobby of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, a friend introduced me to the already legendary Eugenie Droz. As kindly as her rather haughty manner permitted, she asked me what I was working on, and when I replied "Rabelais" she said condescendingly: "Oh, do you
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