The Sunday Telegraph London, January 29th, 2006
Gargantua is tortured French for 'what a big one you've got' ('Que grand tu as') - meaning throat, since Gargantua's first cry was 'Drink, drink, drink, drink!' Pantagruel, Gargantua's son, is pseudo-Greek for 'all-thirsty'. The two names thus signify the same thing - unquenchable desire for intoxicating drink, a major theme of their adventures, which culminate at the Oracle of the Holy Bottle. Rabelais actually addressed what we know as the fi...
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