Contrary forces interdependent in the natural world. Yin and Yang.
Yet in sewer-world, there is a decided imbalance.
I'm sure I will be skewered by anyone with a mystical bent but really, look at this. Books and magazines, eating and drinking establishments—from fast to five-star, contests, world and tiny regional cuisines, compulsions on eating too much and not enough, hearty fare and vintaged alcohol, obsessions over beauty and style, complete with celebrities, all focused to the fashionable up-top, eyes, nose, mouth. Yet everything in, needfully, joyfully, forcefully, comes out in the end in a surprisingly few ways and is quite stylistically opposed to the pageantry of the front end. Conviviality vs. secrecy, at least in this century, in this culture.
Yes, there have been both 24-karat gold "thrones" and hastily dug holes in the ground, but the latitude and amplitude for these containers is far overshadowed by the entry orifice's surroundings and offerings. Could there be a parallel but opposite universe out there somewhere?
Anyway, I guess the only holdover from the top-entry offerings are books, the ones written on bathroom humor.
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