Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book V

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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. There is much crudity and scatological humor as well as a large amount of violence. Long lists of vulgar insults fill several chapters. - Summary by Wikipedia

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1 00 - Prologue 17:13
2 01 - How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the noise that we heard. 6:47
3 02 - How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines, who were become birds. 5:39
4 03 - How there is but one pope-hawk in the Ringing Island. 5:35
5 04 - How the birds of the Ringing Island were all passengers. 6:15
6 05 - Of the dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island. 5:03
7 06 - How the birds are crammed in the Ringing Island. 5:50
8 07 - How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the fable of the horse and the ass. 12:59
9 08 - How with much ado we got a sight of the pope-hawk. 7:36
10 09 - How we arrived at the island of Tools. 6:40
11 10 - How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Sharping. 6:00
12 11 - How we passed through the wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all, Archduke of the Furred Law-cats. 10:58
13 12 - How Gripe-men-all propounded a riddle to us. 6:44
14 13 - How Panurge solved Gripe-men-all's riddle. 6:50
15 14 - How the Furred Law-cats live on corruption. 6:03
16 15 - How Friar John talks of rooting out the Furred Law-cats. 13:41
17 16 - How Pantagruel came to the island of the Apedefers, or Ignoramuses, with long claws and crooked paws, and of terrible adventures and monsters there. 16:54
18 17 - How we went forwards, and how Panurge had like to have been killed. 5:34
19 18 - How our ships were stranded, and we were relieved by some people that were subject to Queen Whims (qui tenoient de la Quinte). 10:49
20 19 - How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy. 6:36
21 20 - How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song 8:57
22 21 - How the Queen passed her time after dinner. 7:39
23 22 - How Queen Whims' officers were employed; and how the said lady retained us among her abstractors. 8:03
24 23 - How the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of eating. 5:38
25 24 - How there was a ball in the manner of a tournament, at which Queen Whims was present. 6:35
26 25 - How the thirty-two persons at the ball fought. 14:50
27 26 - How we came to the island of Odes, where the ways go up and down. 6:28
28 27 - How we came to the island of Sandals; and of the order of Semiquaver Friars. 15:53
29 28 - How Panurge asked a Semiquaver Friar many questions, and was only answered in monosyllables. 13:50
30 29 - How Epistemon disliked the institution of Lent. 8:02
31 30 - How we came to the land of Satin. 12:54
32 31 - How in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay, who kept a school of vouching. 8:10
33 32 - How we came in sight of Lantern-land. 1:54
34 33 - How we landed at the port of the Lychnobii, and came to Lantern-land. 6:11
35 34 - How we arrived at the Oracle of the Bottle. 6:54
36 35 - How we went underground to come to the Temple of the Holy Bottle, and how Chinon is the oldest city in the world. 3:50
37 36 - How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's fear 7:44
38 37 - How the temple gates in a wonderful manner opened of themselves. 4:59
39 38 - Of the Temple's admirable pavement. 3:33
40 39 - How we saw Bacchus's army drawn up in battalia in mosaic work. 7:00
41 40 - How the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the Indians was represented in mosaic work. 6:05
42 41 - How the temple was illuminated with a wonderful lamp. 5:14
43 42 - How the Priestess Bacbuc showed us a fantastic fountain in the temple, and how the fountain-water had the taste of wine, according to the imagination of those who drank of it. 24:24
44 43 - How the Priestess Bacbuc equipped Panurge in order to have the word of the Bottle. 6:34
45 44 - How Bacbuc, the high-priestess, brought Panurge before the Holy Bottle. 3:45
46 45 - How Bacbuc explained the word of the Goddess-Bottle. 5:11
47 46 - How Panurge and the rest rhymed with poetic fury. 5:24
48 47 - How we took our leave of Bacbuc, and left the Oracle of the Holy Bottle. 5:11