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A book titled for this author proposes “billingsgates” and ritual spectacles as two sources of “folk laughter.” This author’s use of the “grotesque” and “carnivalesque” (20[3])modes (20[1])was discussed in a book (20[2])titled for this (20[1])author (20[1])“and his World” (20[1])by Mikhail (20[1])Bakhtin (20[2]0[1])(“mih-khigh-IHL BACK-tin”). It’s (20[1])not Jonathan Swift, but one of this author’s characters kills 260,418 men by urinating (20[1])off (20[2])a cathedral. (20[4])A movement (20[1])led by Aleister Crowley was inspired by this author’s description of a place with the sole precept “do what thou (*) wilt.” In a (10[1])pentalogy of novels by this author, the Oracle of the Golden Bottle is consulted by Panurge, (10[1])and the Abbey of Thélème (“thay-lem”) is founded by one of two title giants. (10[1])For 10 points, name this 16th-century (10[1])French author of (10[1])Gargantua (10[1])and Pantagruel. (0[2])■END■ (0[7])

ANSWER: François Rabelais (“RAHB-uh-lay”) [or Alcofribas Nasier]
<Joseph Krol, Literature - European - Long Fiction&gt; ~25035~ &lt;Editor: Joseph Krol>
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2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y3284%66%0%56.85

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