Why is great literature filled with fart jokes and perverse sex?

Why is great literature filled with fart jokes and perverse sex?

because it's immediately and unabashedly human, and for all our refinements, that which connects us is raunchy sharts in public situations.

>be a scholar and a monk
>aristotle, plato, the bible, quote it with ease
>"flibber-jibbet humungous dicks!"
Very good, Rabelais. Very good.

Butts and dongs are pretty funny.

a veritable pynchon of his time, or rather pynchon is a veritable rabelais of his time!

"Le rire est le propre de l'homme"
- Rabelais

...

>farting intensifies

Why wouldn't it be?

One of my greatest pleasures as a teacher is pointing out all of the fart and cock allusions in, say, Chaucer and Shakespeare to my students. When they come into first-year English expecting poetry to be Wordsworthian and serious and solemn and I give them the Miller's Tale:

>To tell the truth, a fart would make him squeamish,
>And he was always proper in his English.

To watch the eyes widen and the mouths gape open when Alisoun sticks her ass out the window for a kiss:

>And from the window she stuck out her hole;
>And Absalon, not knowing north from south,
>Then kissed her naked ass with eager mouth
>Before he was aware of all of this.
>Then back he started, something seemed amiss:
>A woman has no beard, he knew as much,
>Yet this was rough and hairy to the touch.

And then Nicholas tries it and gets burned:

>Now Nicholas was up to take a piss,
>And thought he would improve upon the jape
>And have him kiss his ass ere he escape.
>He hastened to the window, turned around,
>And stuck his bottom out without a sound,
>Both buttocks and beyond, right to the thighs.
>Then Absalon, who had to strain his eyes,
>Said, "Speak, sweet bird, I know not where thou art."
>And Nicholas at this let fly a fart
>So great it sounded like a thunderclap--
>It nearly blinded Absalon, poor chap.
>But he was set with his hot iron to move,
>And Nicholas was smote right in the groove.

It's the little things that brighten your day, right?

Because there is not much more to life than that, really.

Well.. a little more, perhaps.

i wish you were my teacher, Ma'am.

wiping your ass by shoving a goose's head up it

Great literature is close to nature, as is farting and sex.

would a novel about a high schooler going home every day, talking to no one, and masturbating be literature?

You've described the most literary possible novel, my friend.

Kermode?

haha, he's doxxed rightly now lads

all text is literature
any other definition is pedantic

Is the poop that comes out of my ass and coincidentally forms itself into legible writing literature?

>implying there isn't a language formed by shit itself

It has to be intentionally written by an intelligence.

My ass has a PhD in Crapping from Diarrhea University, is thta intelligent enough??

top marks for being able to spell PhD correctly.

pity about "that" though.

Says the guy who's too lazy to even hit the shift key. Shut the fuck off

Why did Gargantua's size keep changing? At one time he's a few stories tall and at another he has a literal city-state hidden in his teeth.

HNNNNGGGHGHHRRRRNNGGGH!

Have you seen Pasolini's filmatisation? It's great imo

You should teach Tristram Shandy sometime. Virtually every chapter has at least one sex joke, some very well hidden. You have to be a total pervert to pick up on all of it.

Would have been funnier if it went in the woman's ass