SC - Tahini/Sesame Butter

[Michelle "TJ" Brunzie]

Mary Morman wrote:
> 
> Bathing seemed often to be a communal activity.

Considering the comparative difficulty of hauling and heating water
(there being no hot and cold taps), this isn't unreasonable.

>  Wearing hats seems to be
> de rigeur - as it also was for sleeping -

No central heating. Most houses, especially stone ones, were drafty.
Sleeping, BTW, was also often communal, for the heat.

> and being fed and entertained
> "en tub" also seems a common theme.

Yup. I imagine that's the equivalent of the cell-phone plague today. The
influential, rich, powerful, all right, the just plain busy, couldn't
take the time to do otherwise, and people seem to have been a little
less self-conscious then, though. OTOH, look what it did for Marat. If
this seems so strange to us today, though, consider the rumor that
President Lyndon Johnson, roughly 35 years ago, used to dictate letters
and telephone world leaders while sitting on the, uh, commodity.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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