Saturday, March 27, 2021
On Hearing a Foreign Language
Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel 2.9 (after a short speech in Danish; tr. J.M. Cohen):
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'I believe that the Goths spoke like that,' said Eusthenes, 'and if God wished us to speak through our backsides we should speak like that too.'
Je croy (dist Eustenes) que les Gothz parloient ainsi. Et, si Dieu vouloit, ainsi parlerions nous du cul.
Labels: noctes scatologicae
