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Tuesday, September 06, 2005We stink. My god how we hate to be reminded of it and my god how much that reluctance to face it should tell us about its centrality to our existecne. We shower, we smear and spray ourselves with product, we defecate into artfully designed porcelain which takes away the ordure invisibly and more or less odourlessly. When we die we are embalmed, burned or interred before we have time to pong. Take away the sewage systems, take away the running water, take away the morticians and within days our stink is beyond that which can be endured. Every cell of our body is composed of stuff so malodorous than one whiff of it will empty stomachs at fifty paces. It doesn't matter whether we are white, black, rich, poor, virtuous, vicious, healthy or addled. We all stink. It's true. Take away civilization and we're left with little but stink (and he didn't even mention body odor.) Still, I couldn't read his post without imagining the words coming from an English valet. posted by Sydney on 9/06/2005 02:33:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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