Fwd: Re: GRGR(9): Location of the Casino

[Mark Wright AIA]

> Howdy
> 
> --- Jeremy Osner <jeremy at xyris.com> wrote:
> > "wood-soled
> > civilian feet", I thought it might be in Holland; but on p. 182
> > Slothrop
> > says, "...set foot on that France..."
> 
> Didn't people who work in the fishing industry, cleaning fish and
> mucking about with the crap left in the bottom of holds and such,
> once
> wear wooden clogs under their shoes and boots to raise themsives up
> above the mire?  This was common practice in medieval cities, wasn't
> it, when one needed to go walking in the sewage-filled streets and
> one
> was not wealthy enough to ride everywher?
> 
> Could this be a fishing town in France?
> 
> Mark
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