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...children in a gray high-rise apartment complex at Ursynow, a suburb south of Warsaw. The flat has three rooms and a bath, which is often out of order because of faulty workmanship. Jan and his wife had to wait ten years to get the apartment. Most days Ewa rises first, before dawn, in order to catch a bus into downtown Warsaw and be in line at the meat market when it opens at 6 a.m. The early trip to town is annoyingly inconvenient but necessary: typically, their housing complex contains few shops and other services for its residents. When...
...tribe to a war dance. He has been known to show up at the supermarket in a gorilla suit. Why? Why not? "I guess I'm a ham," he says. However he costumes himself, he knows that he can always cool off by jumping into the lavish Jacuzzi bath and forget everything but his motto, floating on a banner overhead: Vita Celebratio Est (Life Is a Celebration...
When the Titanic went down, a banner headline in the Los Angeles Examiner read "Titanic Sinks; Many Millionaires Reported Drowned." Lord Lew Grade, who put up the money for Raise the Titanic, deserves, if not to drown, then at least to take a bath...
...whores of Pocock, mothers of abomination, housewives wallowing in your adulteries, the Lord will smite you. Lolling in your tubs scented with bath oils, in houses equipped with burglar and fire alarms. But what are ye safe from while imperiling your own souls? For he who said he would come as a thief in the night will do even so, and all your alarms will avail you naught in that hour when ye shall see him face to face . . . For in that dread day you shall get the message. Without CB . . . it shall be, that's it, buddy...
...launches into his spiel as someone approaches, voice as quick and confident as the man who sells vegematics on UHF channels. "Spare a quarter, dime, nickel, anything?" he asks; depending on the audience, the end of his pitch differs. If it is an older person, Roger needs a bath, some food, and he surely does. When young people pass, Roger explains with perfect frankness that all he lacks is a few cents so he can get high, which he surely needs as well...