Re: Stinky Towns

From: John Hughes <nysalor_at_...>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:02:09 -0700

Mike:

Hmm. Thunder Rebels offers a specific contradiction to this, when it disparages the Praxians because "they do not bathe."

Yip. It's a Yinkin thing thats been taken up. There are still plenty of contradictory examples though, and towns by their nature are difficult to keep clean.

One thing that has struck me in reading contemporary literature on village life, is that the strong smell of villages and towns is taken as a positive thing. Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' frr instance, talks of the 'welcoming fecality' of a village's smell as he approaches.

John

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