Gargantua

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At one point, Gargantua rinses his hands in wine, picks his teeth with a pig’s trotter, spreads a green cloth over the table and embarks on an epic spree of card games.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2019

The series is called Gargantua and dinners are served every Thursday through Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2017

This ambitious weekender begins at Mello Mello on Thursday with Gargantua, an experimental multimedia opera by Ergo Phizmiz, with support from Wyrding Module.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2013

For the Russian avant-garde, the rectilinearity of modernism—the cube, plane, column, grid—was as much born from the book as it was the industrial Gargantua of the new machine age.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2012

“Friar John” is a mighty man of valor, who figures equivocally in the story of Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver