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I’m surprised by how tight my throat get. It’s a shame I learned to keep down a long time ago.
Miss Skeeter look real confused. “The Home…the what?”
“A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. I’ve even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi
Miss Skeeter, she frowning at Miss Hilly. She set her cards down faceup and say real matter-a-fact, “Maybe we ought to just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly.”
From The Help by Kathryn Stockett
“After his breakfast he walked the path to the outhouse. He felt remarkably peaceful sitting there, shut away from the world. He’d always thought of the privy as a holy place, a refuge from all but the most basic human concerns. As a novitiate he scandalized his superiors by claiming it wasn’t the church but the shithouse that was God’s true home in the world, the pungent effluvium as meditative an odor as incense, sunlight through the crescent moon carved in the door providing the dusky ambience of a monastery cell.”
From Galore by Michael Crummey
“…at once the tap glowed with a brilliant white light and began to spin. Next second, the sink began to move; the sink in fact, sank, right out of sight, leaving a large pipe exposed, a pipe wide enough for a man to slide into.”
From Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
In literature, the bathroom has served as a means of racial oppression, a place for spiritual contemplation, or an entryway to secret dangers. It's also a great place to read. June is Bathroom Reading Month, and to celebrate, I’ve compiled a list of "bathroom-y" books for all reading types. Keep ’em on top of the toilet for those captive moments throughout the day.
