And Let's not Forget...
RICHARD ROMEO
RR.TFCNY at mail.fdncenter.org
Tue Jul 30 10:01:00 CDT 1996
That's what that white toilet's for. You
see many brown toilets? Nope, toilet's the color of gravestones..."
(688).
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....that one can easily procure a toilet in any color nowadays. I'm not
sure that passage really is relevant anymore. Also since when do white
folks have a monopoly on fearing the presence of death-- I guess
non-whites or lower class whites don't fear it? Sure a critique of
middle class USA but that horse has been beaten to death...
Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org
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