“In the grotesque body…death brings nothing to an end, for it does not concern the ancestral body, which is renewed in the next generation. The events of the grotesque sphere are always developed on the boundary dividing one body from the other and, as it were, at their points of intersection. One body offers its death, the other its birth, but they are merged in a two-bodied image.”
Rabelais and his World, Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Indiana University Press, 1984, p322
The Healers, 2008, 