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4. Perhaps the mystery of the origin of the verb goose might be cleared up by examining the opening chapter of Gargantua , by Rabelais.
In an engaging, wide-ranging display of erudition, Firmage discusses the letters' symbological values in such diverse parlances as chemistry, music, ancient and modern mysticism (including far too much New Age material for my tastes), while quotes from such diverse figures as Joyce, Rabelais, Dostoyevsky, Bob Dylan--and Elmer Fudd--interlard the text.
Father Sexpot is a stock character going back to Rabelais, to The Canterbury Tales , and why not?
“Ici, en France, n'importe qui a le droit de jumbo frank-furter . Mais on n'a pas le droit d'apprendre aux enfants que, l'époque de Rabelais, les gens auraient jumbo frankfurter . Pas de question, Pepe.”
The cause of Maître-Créche's legal troubles was a poster depicting Rabelais' famous comic figure Gargantua staring forlornly at an empty hot-dog roll and sighing, “Que j'eusse bien aimé jumbo frankfurther aujourd'hui!”