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So this guy was an alcoholic, right?

>> No.19356275

>>19355721
WHy does it matter?

>> No.19356280

>>19355721
All great writers were either alcoholics or drug addicts

>> No.19356284

>>19355721
I am drunk right now, so to don't think about it I enter 4chan, looks like the world is reminding of my sin.

>> No.19356309

>>19355721
>In the Prologue to Gargantua the narrator addresses the : "Most illustrious drinkers, and you the most precious pox-ridden—for to you and you alone are my writings dedicated ..." before turning to Plato's Banquet.
you tell me
but if we are at this topic, I would prefer spinoza who only drank wine and ate raisins... for decades!

>> No.19357255

>>19356309
>but if we are at this topic, I would prefer spinoza who only drank wine and ate raisins... for decades!

If that's true it's amazing what the human body can adapt to.

>> No.19357280
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19357280

>>19356275
Because over half his book is paens to boozing. This isn't some "was Michael Crichton a serial flasher?" speculation that has no relationship to his work. It makes a material difference to how the themes of the book are meant to be interpreted overall, which is one of the most vexing question of Rabelais scholarship. That's 'why it matters,' faggot.

>> No.19357454

>>19355721
Probably a coprophile as well. Well he was a frenchie after all.

>> No.19357503

>>19357454
that would be Krauts

>> No.19357845

>>19357716
Yeah that's a phrase. It'd be one thing if he meant his litanies on drinking occasionally, but they dominate certain chapters entirely, and rarely is there a chapter without some reference to it's pleasures or at least attractions (which isn't the case with commentary on food, religion, royalty, religion... Perhaps clothing is mentioned as often, or the works of Pliny, but then again we can assume he wore clothes and used Latin perhaps to excess everyday of his life.

>> No.19357848

Autosaged?
test

>> No.19357716

>>19357280
He probably liked wine but everything is immensely exaggerated in his characters. How many cows were used to feed babby Pantagruel? 4600?