Kaijune 2023 #19: Frankenstein
"Uh, don't you mean Frankenstein's monster?"
No.

#kaijune2023 #kaijune #kaiju #frankenstein #furankenshutain #gargantua

Today in Labor History January 17, 1536: Francois Rabelais was absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III and allowed to resume his medical practice. Rabelais was a physician, writer, Catholic monk and Greek scholar. He published “Pantagruel” in 1532. He later incorporated it into his larger work, “Gargantua and Pantagruel,” which satirized the nobility, the church, the legal system, explorers, machismo and pretty much all that was sacred to the French ruling elite. Consequently, he was persecuted much of his life. His last will stated: “I have nothing. I owe a great deal. The rest I leave to the poor.”

One of my favorite passages: The FURREED Law-Cats are most terrible and dreadful monsters; they devour little children, and trample over marble stones. Pray tell me, noble topers, do they not deserve to have their snouts slit? The hair of their hides doesn’t grow outward, but inwards… They have claws so very strong, long, and sharp that nothing can get from ‘em what is once fast between their clutches... Among ‘em reigns the sixth essence; by the means of which they gripe all, devour all, burn all, draw all, hang all, quarter all, behead all, murder all, imprison all, waste all and ruin all, without the least notice of right and wrong; for among them vice is called virtue; wickedness, piety; treason, loyalty; robbery, justice. Plunder is their motto, and all this they do because they dare; their authority is sovereign and irrefragable.

#Rabelais #gargantua #liable #treason #prison #satire #fiction #Literature #writer @bookstadon

@Terquiteldes #Gargantua aldatu digute!

GARGANTUA (1998) was a Fox TV movie, made to capitalize on Sony's GODZILLA (1998).

This only ever got a VHS release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApQMfb9bjho

#kaiju #gargantua #godzilla #monstermovies

Dall-e made this from the prompt: “A William Blake watercolour of Rabelais eating apples while balancing on a goose.”

It's nothing like a William Blake watercolour. It doesn't look like Rabelais (maybe Pantagruel/Gargantua?) This person is not eating an apple and they are balancing (maybe), but not on a goose.

Hmph.

#WilliamBlake #Rabelais #Pantagruel #Gargantua

RT @edu_inaf
Per la serie delle videopillole in realtà virtuale, oggi #LauraLeonardi ci parla di #Gargantua, il #buconero di #Interstellar

https://edu.inaf.it/index.php/videolezione/gargantua-virtuale/

#astronomyforabetterworld #astrofisicapertutti

"Ledit bâtiment était cent fois plus magnifique que n'est Bonnivet, ne Chambord, ne Chantilly."
https://frama.link/4YC_K0nR

Comment fût bâtie et dotée l'abbaye des Thélémites. Chapitre 53. #Rabelais, #Gargantua (1542, version modernisée)

@CESR_Tours #Renom #BVH #RenaissanceS

Comment Gargantua paya sa bienvenue ès Parisiens, et comment il prit les grosses cloches de l'église #NotreDame. Chapitre 17.
https://frama.link/jyCjJduL
#Gargantua, 1542 de #Rabelais (Version modernisée).
#ReNom #BVH @CESR_Tours