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...every House came in for a little bitterness, Quincy came in for the least sentimental praise. Somebody summed up his disenchantment by writing, "We began with the great toilet-paper chase and we've kept on being silly...
Doctors call the disorder pica (rhymes with Micah), from the Latin for magpie. But whereas the magpie merely collects assorted, useless objects, the pica victim eats them. Favorite items are newspapers, toilet and handkerchief tissues, clay and sand, wood, cigarettes and butts, used matches, laundry starch, crayons, grass and leaves, soap, aluminum foil-and even bugs. One girl of 14 ate several pages of newspaper every day, and found the classified ads especially tasty...
...appears as a Negro dressed entirely in white-that is to say, as a union of opposites, as a completeness possible perhaps only in God. He comes moreover as a redeemer. One by one as through the veil of a sanctuary, he leads the junkies through a door marked TOILET. One by one he injects them with an elixir that washes away their wretchedness, that raises them from the living dead, that transports them to "existence on another plane...
...does have marvels of decor. There is a room lined with towering cases of gilded bric-a-brac. In another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox is Scavenger-Sculptress Louise Nevelson...
...MANHATTAN'S IMPOVERISHED PUERTO RICANS: "They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions...