Well, ok, I needed a snippet for smell. And I'd been reading about how stinky the world was before modern sanitation, that you could literally smell when you were nearing a port.
And, when you get down to it, life is really messy and undignified. The sheer number of gross bodily functions that you deal with in the course of the average day is pretty impressive.
In truth, I was also thinking of the scene in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" with the King and Queen of the Moon; the King's Head lamenting that it ever has to be reattached to the body and all the nasty things the body makes it do, that once the body dies it can be pure and think elevated, rational thoughts amongst the cosmos.
So there James was, able to sit and reflect without headaches, hard-ons or upset stomachs. And now he's got to face all that again and he has no choice in the matter.
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Date: 2011-02-07 01:55 am (UTC)Well, ok, I needed a snippet for smell. And I'd been reading about how stinky the world was before modern sanitation, that you could literally smell when you were nearing a port.
And, when you get down to it, life is really messy and undignified. The sheer number of gross bodily functions that you deal with in the course of the average day is pretty impressive.
In truth, I was also thinking of the scene in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" with the King and Queen of the Moon; the King's Head lamenting that it ever has to be reattached to the body and all the nasty things the body makes it do, that once the body dies it can be pure and think elevated, rational thoughts amongst the cosmos.
So there James was, able to sit and reflect without headaches, hard-ons or upset stomachs. And now he's got to face all that again and he has no choice in the matter.