Greg Swindle

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Therefore, it can be said that the restroom is the most elegantly designed in Japanese architecture. Our ancestors, who poetize everything, have taken a place that should be filthier than any other place in a house and turned it into a place of refinement and associated it with flowers, birds, wind and the moon to create nostalgic associations. Compared to Westerners, who treat the place as impure and abhor the mention of such things in public, our people are much wiser and have the essence of elegance.
In Praise of Shadows
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