Word: cloacina
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Homage to Cloacina. These, and a thousand other sordid details-all inspired by Cloacina, Goddess of the Sewers -appear in British Author Reginald Reynolds' Cleanliness and Godliness-"A Discussion of the Problems of Sanitation from Earliest Times to the Present Day." Unlike most plumbings of such channels, Cleanliness and Godliness is a first-rate literary essay, overflowing with sanity and bubbling with wit. Its heroes include Moses (whose laws, says Author Reynolds, were based less on divine sanction than on pamphlets issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Health); Elizabethan Sir John Harington, the inventor of the water-closet...
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