Anton Petrovich turned into the passage, followed the arrow to men, mankind, human beings, marched past the toilet, past the kitch...en, gave a start when a cat darted under his feet, quickened his step, reached the end of the passage, pushed open a door, and a shower of sunlight splashed his face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to b...ecome a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dandyism does not even consist, as many thoughtless persons appear to believe, in an immoderate taste for the toilet and material ...elegance. These things are for the perfect dandy only symbols of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the e...ndless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for the... eighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The area [of toilet training] is one where a child really does possess the power to defy. Strong pressure leads to a powerful stru...ggle. The issue then is not toilet training but who holds the reins--mother or child? And the child has most of the ammunition!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies' toilet is invariably kno...wn as "Lover's Lane."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people.... The...y are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are three main parenting jobs: getting your kid to go to sleep without bedtime problems, getting your kid to eat without bei...ng finicky, and getting your kid toilet trained. Nobody I know has scored three out of three.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-...garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »