The Last Taboo
We have been conditioned not to talk about it. We have had women’s liberation, sex revolution, workers’ revolution; we can talk about everything now — the toilet is the last taboo which must be broken. — Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organisation In his In Praise of Shadows, Junichirō Tanizaki expounds upon the idea of a Japanese aesthetic sentiment grounded in the nimble shade, the gentle cool corner of the room, the buoyant play of faint shadows: the lightness of light. He laments the development and effect of rude electric lighting and considers phenomena such as the...
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