Word: excrementalism
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...usual four-letter word-though what's wrong with "dung"? But the fact is that cholera bacilli multiply only in human (not animal) intestines. To carry cholera, water supplies must be contaminated by human fecal matter, or, if you prefer another bowdlerism, human excrement. If man would stop drinking and washing in the water into which he defecates, there would be no more cholera. The disease may be 80% to 90% curable, but it is 100% preventable-if people were not such filthy beasts...
This is Terry Southern's first novel in eleven years, and the news is that he has given up hard-core scatology. Blue Movie has but a single passing reference to excrement, and only one physical freak. Instead, the author is content to employ his demonic imagination on an almost routine device for writing a pornbook: the step-by-step story of filming the most elaborate stag flick in history...
...excrement flows in little rivulets down the streets...
Carpenter recalls some areas around Boston "that sounded like rain from the excrement of the caterpillars...
...cave "to cover his feet," but "to relieve himself." To ensure that their camps would be fit for God's presence, Israelites are instructed to carry a trowel with them; "When you squat outside" the camp, orders Deuteronomy 23: 13, "you shall scrape a hole . . . and cover your excrement." Husbands and wives no longer "know" each other, but "have intercourse." The man struck down by untimely death in Job no longer has "breasts full of milk," but "loins full of vigor." ("What he was full of was clearly semen," says Sir Godfrey, "but we put it more delicately...