"Don't shit where you eat" [revisited]

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:11 PM -0400 8/4/07, James Harbeck wrote:
>Speaking of excretory aphorisms, I'm often put in mind of one that I
>read in _National Geographic_, cited as a Danish one (in
>translation): "Peeing in your pants will only keep you warm for so
>long."
>
>If this one becomes popular in English (and, since it was in the
>context of certain responses to global climate change, and was in one
>of the mostly widely read magazines in the world, it might), it seems
>to me we can mark that appearance in _National Geographic_ as the
>primary vector.
>
>James Harbeck.

Although the concept itself will be familiar to
readers of (even the first page of) _Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man_  (something like "When
you wet the bed first it is warm and then it is
cold", one of Stephen Dedalus's first aperçus).

LH

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