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Filed under Absurd ignorance.

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Fool unacquainted with sausage. He squeezes the inside out and takes the covering for a sackFool is unacquainted with bananas, throws away the fruit, finds the rest bitter. (Similar for watermelon, plums.)Woman is unacquainted with tea, serves the boiled leaves with butter
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Hero does not learn his name until after first adventureThe city person ignorant of the farmWhy the pigs shriek. The sheep does not understand why the pig being carried to slaughter shrieksLayman's ignorance of medicineFool cannot tell his right hand in the darkFools and the unknown animalFoolish lover ignorant of mistress's flawsIgnorance of religious mattersPriests (schoolmasters) ignorant of LatinThe countryman in the great worldIgnorance of datesIgnorance of marriage relationsAbsurd ignorance of sexIgnorance of readingThe archbishop's wife and family. Fool asks what he is to talk about when guests arrive. Is told: "Their wives and family." He asks the archbishop about his family. (Cf. J2461.2.)Absurd ignorance of the use of spectacles
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