Rabelais : François (c.1483-1553), French writer, physician, humanist; author of a comic & satirical masterpiece, Gargantua & Pantagruel.
... traditions, it is possible, but still... you have heard of Rabelais? Page 149 Yes? Well, it was told in France by Rabelais in a book—it is... ( Mother turns to Pavitra, who doesn't know, then to Nolini ) Perhaps Nolini knows! (Nolini) "Pantagruel". "Pantagruel"! Well, I know nothing about it. It is one of the famous books of Rabelais... which I haven't read, besides... but he tells the... by several different persons... I mean, there are even old Hindu traditions like this, I think, there are Persian stories like this, there are Arab stories like this; so I don't exactly know what Rabelais has said; however, the story goes like this: For some reason or other one of the sheep falls from the boat into the sea, and all the rest follow one after another ( Laughter ). Because one has ...
... Aphorism - 81, 82, 83 81—God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais. 82—If men took life less seriously, they could very soon make it more perfect. God never takes His works seriously; therefore one looks out on this wonderful Universe. Page 154 83—Shame ...
... subordinating the members but a group of free individuals spontaneously associating with one another. There is a dif-ference here from the Renascence explosion of individual zest - the riotous giantism of Rabelais, the curious and happy self-regard of Montaigne, the artistic egotism of Benvenuto Cellini, the perplexed individualistic passion and powerful expanding enthusiasm of the half animal half god heroes ...
... when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes. 81) God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais. 82) If men took life less seriously, they could very soon make it more perfect. God never takes His works seriously; therefore one looks out on this wonderful Universe. 83) Shame has admirable ...
... listening to you now. ( Satprem reads ) 81—God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais. Page 23 ( After a silence ) We'll see on Monday. It's rather odd, at times it comes in torrents (more than streams): forms, images, expressions, revelations, it comes flowing, flowing ...
... nothing. Read me those aphorisms again. 81—God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais. 82—If men took life less seriously, they could very soon make it more perfect.... Indeed! ...God never takes His works seriously; therefore one looks out on this wonderful universe. ...
... the combined effort of many, the contribution of more than one genius, that their language and literature have been formed and enriched. Corneille, Racine, Molière, La Fontaine (or up the stream to Rabelais) – they are a goodly company; among these whom to exclude and whom to include? And yet here too, perhaps only one can be taken as France's representative spirit. He can be only Racine. Racine embodies ...
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