Category Archives: Contemporary

Présentation du Tiers Livre

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Swany

Vox Poetica: “Mais qu’en est-il de l’éloge du Pantagruélion ? Il est assez lâchement relié au propos, comme si un détail des préparatifs de l’expédition était soudain monté en épingle, au point de se substituer à tout le reste.” Commentary … Continue reading →

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The price of weed

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Swany

PriceOfWeed.com: Crowd sourcing the street value of marijuana. Average price of an ounce of high quality weed in Alberta: $241 ($8,400 per kilogram).

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Assassin of Youth: 1938

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Swany

Shorpy Historic Photo Archive You must see it “Assassin of Youth” Marihuana Daring – Sensational The truth about the fastest craze

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Oldest marijuana stash found

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Swany

Discovery News: “Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world’s oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of … Continue reading →

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Rabelais’s Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Swany

University of California Press E-Books Collection: Kinser, Samuel. Rabelais’s Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Full text.

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Le Pantagruelion ou le Discours de la Vérité 

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Swany

Persée : Portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales: Bulletin de l’Association d’étude sur l’humanisme, la réforme et la renaissance, 1983, Volume 16 Numéro 16, pp. 18-4

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Claims that Shakespeare “turned to marijuana seeds” for inspiration

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Swany

Skin Up With Shakespeare: “However, using marijuana seeds to uncover under-lying inspiration is certainly nothing new in the world of literature. Francois Rabelais, who died about ten years before the birth of William Shakespeare, made many cryptic references to cannabis. … Continue reading →

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Homegrown pot threatens Mexican cartels

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Swany

CBS News: “Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and … Continue reading →

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The design of Rabelais’s Tiers livre

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Swany

Google Books: By Edwin M. Duval, 1997 Publisher: Droz, (Travaux d’humanisme et Renaissance) Pub. Date: January 1997 ISBN-13: 9782600002288 Fragments from a search for pantagruelion: 210: Increasingly thoughout the Pantagruelion chapters he hints that the “mot de l’enigme” is itself … Continue reading →

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Human brains make their own “marijuana”

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Swany

ScienceDaily U.S. and Brazilian scientists have discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself. This discovery may lead to new marijuana-like drugs for managing pain, stimulating appetite, and preventing marijuana abuse.”

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