Rabelais was a Fabulous Guy

We had to read Gargantua for my French Lit. class... fascinating. And, amid all the fart jokes and uncouth remarks, there are some little gems of knowledge, which I will impart upon you in list form (I've been making lists all day...dky, so may as well continue.).

1. Friggle Fraggle - nonsensical stories told by a drunk person

2. If your husband dies, you've got about two months to play around and sleep it up because after 11 months, your child is completely illegitimate.

3. Tripes are intestines. Basically, when you eat tripes, you're eating crap. Rabelais thought that was really funny.

4. Question of the hour: Do you wet yourself to get dry, or do you dry yourself to get wet?

5. Drinking leads to divinity; it is the great equalizer. Monks drink. Kings drink. Peasants drink.

6. Gargantua's birth led to the rebirth of textuality and created a more intertextual community.

7. Guys shouldn't put their junk in a box. In fact, the complete opposite should occur, so goodness and light have the opportunity to spew forth.

8. Humanism is bad.

9. Literature can either be read incorrectly or correctly. To do it right, you must be initiated. How do you become initiated? -Get drunk. Truth is found in drunkenness.