Calvinism and vice (WAS MDMD(3)--Just a thought)

[Sherwood, Harrison]

>From: 	millison at online-journalist.com

>  (Until
>quite recently, the red-light establishments in Amsterdam struck tourists
>as quaintly cozy, travesties of the Dutch bourgeois household or the
>bric-a-brac bibelot shop, full of knickknackery, lace curtains, bibelots,
>and potted plants, with their own gaudy version of gezelligheid.)

I'm not quite sure which tourists your little friend is talking about,
but I can guaran-goddamn-tee it isn't my sainted grandmother Mabel Zosel
from Wadena, Minnesota, who became separated from her Civitans tour
group and blundered into Amsterdam's Red-Light District in 1978. She
hasn't recovered the power of speech since, poor dear. But everyone
agreed her newly acquired snowy-white hair was most becoming, especially
after they'd plastered it back down to within a few inches of her skull
with a poultice of pomade, macassar oil, and bear-grease. I don't think
"quaintly cozy" would be her nomination for the _mot juste_, there.

Harrison