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From: Ernest Moncada <emonc@erols.com>
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When Al Kriman wrote in the course of his interesting remarks of
'carbingestion and beautiful words' that "People usually prefer to go in
a more dignified manner," I thought of the exception described in
Seneca's Epist. 70, his account of the captive German in Rome posted to
the beast-fighting barracks who asked his guards for permission to visit
the "loo" before the morning show (the only time he was allowed any
privacy). There, he choked himself to death by taking the sponge-tipped
torche-cul and forcing it down his throat. Observes Seneca, Not vey
clean, not very nice, but how stupid to be fastidious about dying.   EJM
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