The Death of Rabelais by Jane Clark Scharl

Friar: Humor s a relief! It shows the truth.Every Laugh s a window on the void—crack jokes with me, and by them crack the world sfacade to show the bedlam underneath! Rabelais: Humor is no chaos, but the verydrip and flow of everything, the stickyfluid carrying life up from stodgysoil to all these many moistening bodies humor is our unity, [ ]