Aug 11, 2023
from Perecās Life A Userās Manual. As the wiki article shows, āGelon The Samartianā might figure as a different translation, or more likely I think a deliberate misattribution (idk), but the text Perec uses is directly lifted from Rabelaisā 4th book of Pantagruel: (ā¦ āalso a tarand, whom he bought of a Scythian of the Gelonesā countryā.)
Rabelais includes a final statement that Perec leaves off:
āWhen the creature was free from any fear or affection, the colour of its hair was just such as you see that of the asses of Meung.ā
