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Updated: May 3, 2025
Alike in the giant-hero, Pantagruel, in his father, Gargantua, and in his follower and boon-companion, Panurge, one can discern the spirit of the Renaissance expansive, humorous, powerful, and, above all else, alive. Rabelais' book is the incarnation of the great reaction of his epoch against the superstitious gloom and the narrow asceticism of the Middle Ages.
Of course such indignities were fatal to royalty, and Ben gave up all hopes of a pure race of Shanghais. The Emperor was then set at liberty, and for one short half-hour strutted like a giant-hero among the astounded hens.
All below was calm now and silence; smoke-drift and dying men. The Gunner was standing at an open port, directing operations. His passion too had passed. The giant-hero of a few minutes' back seemed almost small now. And a strange figure he made. The sweat had coursed through the rouge on his cheeks; and the dye on his whiskers had run, dripping on to neck and shoulders.
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