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> Chris Kromm wrote:
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> >I trust this is a joke? The sad part is, it's so hard to tell
> these days...
>
> What's so preposterous about a study of the toilet? Dominique Laporte
> wrote a fascinating History of Shit, just published by MIT Press; he
> argued that the protocols that emerged in the 18th century for
> handling waste were crucial to the development of bourgeois
> individualism. Slavoj Zizek has a wonderful little riff about
> national toilet styles (and national pubic hair styles) and their
> relations to "national character."
>
> It's always interesting to note what people don't want to talk about.
>
> Doug
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Seattle [and many other cities on hills] could not exist without the toilet; indeed it was one of the 1st major markets for the Crapper [hey it was the guys last name]
Ian