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...Discovery is mostly my mania," he wrote. His biographer answers him back: "Burton's real passion was not for geographical discovery, but for the hidden in man, for the unknowable and therefore the unthinkable. What his Victorian compatriots called unclean, bestial or Satanic, he regarded with almost clinical detachment. In this respect he belongs more properly...
...contrast to the sanitary protection afforded food in the supermarket scene, you have shown two pictures in the home where the working spoon was used for tasting; seven women without hairnets in the active preparation of food; nine men lacking chefs' hats; unclean fish, lobsters and clams on a food-preparation surface; and evidence of drinking by one "chef" at work. All are sanitary-code-regulation violations...
...teachers to stimulate classroom discussions on "the natural emotional responses related to kissing and petting." Eighth-Grade Teacher Bernard Dory deftly handles such queries as "Is it O.K. to have intercourse while the girl is having her period?" (His answer: intercourse during menstruation is possible, but many consider it unclean.) The need for plain talk is shown by the appalling misinformation some Washington youngsters bring to the course. At least once a year Teacher Effie Jones is asked by one of her eighth-grade girls: "Mrs. Jones, if I don't have sexual relations before...
...Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean...
...when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind? --Kahlil Gibran The Prophet...