Pantagruelion

How cannabis makes thoughts tumble

Swany — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:05:19 +0000

Mind Hacks: “Cannabis smokers often report that when stoned, their thoughts have a free-wheeling quality and concepts seem connected in unusual and playful ways. A study just published online in Psychiatry Research suggests that this effect may be due to the drug causing ‘fast and loose’ patterns of spreading activity in memory, something known as ‘hyper-priming’.”

Claims that Shakespeare “turned to marijuana seeds” for inspiration

Swany — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:19:13 +0000

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. His book, Pantagruel, describes the drug as the herb Pantagruelion, a term used to escape persecution from the Church. For a long time the book was banned from the Catholic Church and in many modern versions of the book the coded references to marijuana seeds are omitted.”

Illustration for Tiers Livre Chapter 41

Swany — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:16:08 +0000

Gallica — Title : [Illustrations du Tiers livre des faictz et dictz héroïques du noble
Pantagruel.] / François Rabelais, aut. du texte

Publisher : Claude La Ville (Valence – Lyon)

Date of publication : 1547-1548

Mithridates

Swany — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:29:48 +0000

Concordance: Mithridates

Mithridatum and the death of Mithridates

Swany — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:52:07 +0000

The bust of Mithridates as Hercules is in the Louvre (Paris).

Encyclopaedia Romana: Compendium of quotes on Mithridates and his antidote to poison (thereiac): from Justin, Epitome (XXXVII.2); Celsus, De Medicina (V.23.3); Cassius Dio (XXXVII.13); Pliny (XXIX.24-25); and A. E. Houseman, “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff.”

Homegrown pot threatens Mexican cartels

Swany — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:27:01 +0000

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 pot growers in the United States and Mexico.”

Chinese knotweed

Swany — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:26:20 +0000

Shanghai Daily: “ZHENG Dexun shows off a humanshaped heshouwu, or Chinese knotweed, yesterday in Langzhong in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The herb, weighing 5.8 kilograms and standing 62 centimeters high, resembles a naked child. Zheng, 63, a farmer in Datianba Village, discovered the oddity five days ago while digging for the herb, which is used as a tonic for the kidneys and to treat weak bones and hair loss.”

Le disciple de Pantagruel

Swany — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:16:42 +0000

Navigation: Le disciple de Pantagruel, s.l., 1538 [Lyons, Denis de Harsy]

NRB 131: Listed under spurious works. Similar image in other editions of the Navigation.

Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel

Swany — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:51:09 +0000

Listed as spurious in New Rabelais Bibliography [NRB 113 (p. 560): the bulk of the book is made up of woodcuts of grotesque figures. Manifestly pseudo-Rabelaisian.]

aequinoctial

Swany — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:47:02 +0000

51.08.10: De mode que les Intelligences celestes, les Dieux tant marins que terrestres en ont esté tous effrayez, voyans par l’usaige de cestuy benedict Pantagruelion, les peuples Arcticques en plein aspect des Antarticques, franchir la mer Athlanticque, passer les deux Tropicques, volter soubs la Zone torride, mesurer tout le Zodiacque, s’esbatre soubs l’aequinoctial, avoir l’un & l’aultre Pole en veue à fleur de leur Orizon.