At 05:57 PM 1/5/01 -0500, Anne Prescott wrote:
>I don't think I have any exact parallel to Colin's chewing out Calidore,
>but I can't help remembering Rabelais entering Pantagruel as an anagram,
>"Alcofribas Nasier," or in this case just "Alcofribas." What did you eat,
>asks Pantagruel as the two chat afterward. Passing food, says
>Alcofribas. "And where didst thou shit?" "In your throat." Oh. Not the
>same, really, but a good precedent for entering one's fiction under an
>assumed name (at first *Pantagruel* was ascribed to Alcofribas Nasier,
>sort of like "Imerito"). Erasmus is at times named by his
>fictions--everyting is going to Hell, says one character in "The Gospel
>Bearer," as witness Erasmus writing dialogues. Ho, ho. Anne Prescott.
I can't match these two for wit, but the mention of Erasmus puts me in mind
of the character Morus in More's _Utopia_.
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