Vulgar words in The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy (Page 1)
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_IV.--THE SIN OF SIMONY_ Reverend Fathers,--I was about to write to you concerning the accusations which you have so long brought against me, wherein you call me impious, buffoon, rogue, impostor, calumniator, swindler, heretic, disguised Calvinist, one possessed of a legion of devils.
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In the social display of wit and humour, there is a marked mean between the buffoon and the dullard or prig.
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Footnote 7: The ass stands for Ra, the sun-god, and the eater of the ass is darkness or some eclipse, represented as one of the foes of Ra, in the vignette figured as a serpent on the back of an ass.