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La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua
La Vie treshorrificque du grand Gargantua is a text about the possibility of learning everything and thinking everything, without any censorship. Learn everything, think everything, and say everything: the comic, the grotesque, the pathetic, the scatological, the scientific, the astronomical, everything, everything and everything. Except the obscurantist: no false knowledge, no vain erudition, no feigned curiosity. Astonishment cannot be betrayed.
La Vie treshorrificque du grand Gargantua is also a text about the freedom of language, which is the beginning of all freedom. Being able to say everything means being able to tackle any subject, from church to fecal matter; it also means being able to say any word, even invented words. For man to free himself, he must free his ability to speak. He must free his language. After Rabelais, spelling became academic, thought submitted to reason, and language came under the rule of law. Yet the memory of the giants remains in the words: freedom has left a written and oral mark on the established order. La Vie treshorrificque du grand Gargantua is the childhood of French, a free, facetious, mongrel childhood that adult French remembers with emotion, as a time of carefree gaiety.