MANICHAEAN
09-09-2010, 08:50 AM
Wheras there is so much written these days warning us against excess, don't you find in reading Rabelais that he is one of those rare spirits that redeems the physiological energy and courage required to enjoy this world?
Whether it is wine, food or sex he treats it so completely as it ought to be treated! In the wine it is a sign to us how there is required a certain generous and sane intoxication, a certain large and equable friendliness in dealing with people and things and ideas.
"God save the company! I have already supped, yet will I eat never a whit the less for that; for I have a paved stomach, as hollow as a butt of malvoisie or St Benedictus' boot (butt), and always open like a lawyer's pouch."
(How theMonk was feasted by Gargantua)
Whether it is wine, food or sex he treats it so completely as it ought to be treated! In the wine it is a sign to us how there is required a certain generous and sane intoxication, a certain large and equable friendliness in dealing with people and things and ideas.
"God save the company! I have already supped, yet will I eat never a whit the less for that; for I have a paved stomach, as hollow as a butt of malvoisie or St Benedictus' boot (butt), and always open like a lawyer's pouch."
(How theMonk was feasted by Gargantua)