A lot in this, Dave. (Stumbling over strigils, I looked them up and find I could
buy tiles for my bathroom thus:
http://www.finearttiles.co.uk/browse.php?pictureid=6
and is Tarquin's Ravenous Pride with its capitals harking back also to something
19th century British...?)
Max
Quoting David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
> *It’d be like a holiday to think of History making sense*
>
> like (as in the case of) the Etruscans
>
> (of Tarquin’s Ravenous Pride)
>
> fingering their faience beads and beliefs: in womanly
> libido and the bodily equality of sexes, O mi Chianti, slavery,
> the physical persistence of the soul in the after-life,
>
> its languorous couches hung with dangling, attainable grapes,
> and bathroom accessories
> placating the restless
> sleep-walking dead
> with hungry gossip and the latest strigils and loofahs
>
> Volscian Commissions on affordable Housing for Ancestral Profiles
>
> while the squaring Romans drilled in the distant hills.
>
>
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