So, here's the story. I had just found out that the Green
Tortoise wouldn't provide water for showers, and I was looking for
alternative bathing facilities. This lead to somebody offering his - um -
help, and a response from me ...
- From: Joseph Dunphy
- To: Jung
- Subject: Re: Showers?
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, abject photo wrote:
>  Naked males are
allways welcomed to cum over to my
> camp for nude showering photo sessions...
Oh-kayyyyy. (mild amusement)
I will most likely be naked, given the heat, but I'm not so sure about
the photography session. 
> Why it would be like
High School lockeroom with
your
> coach watching 
Oh, I don't know about that. Unless this would be in an aging prep
school gymnasium, with a horde of my mostly Catholic classmates staring at
my nether regions in amazement, having only just learned what the word
"circumcision" meant, I don't think that it would be the same experience
at all. I can't even begin to imagine how you'd reproduce that "aroma of
the ages" one gets from over 100 years of mildew being covered over with
peppermint-scented disinfectant.
And how would you ever recapture the musical speech of a 65-year old
male Russian immigrant, who had sort of learned English in New Jersey?
"Yo, Joseph! Is not to turn on cold water, goombah. Pipes have not been
cleaned. You would not like." Those are some big shoes you're trying to
fill, my friend. Literally. Coach wore a size 15.
> Besides tara and
sammie would love to devirginize
> yahs..
We could discuss that possibility.
However, unless "Sammie" is a "Samantha", I suspect my sexual orientation would get in the
way.
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When I arrived at Burning Man, I discovered that the camp director for
the place I ended up showering, and a number of people from that
village viewed this as having been a harsh personal attack on Mr. Jung.
I was astonished, and still am. How could anybody read that letter and
think that I was serious? Out of respect for the camp director, who
seemed to be a very nice woman, I decided to leave her and her village unnamed.
However, I found the lack of a sense of humor disturbing, and
I would see more of it on the same
list ...
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