Bum Fodder: An Absorbing History of Toilet PaperThis is the hidden history of an invention that we use every day but seldom dare to speak of. In medieval China it was cutting-edge technology. For 19th-century Americans it was a newfangled alternative to dried corncobs and the Sears & Roebuck catalogue. Wits in Georgian London preferred pages of bad poetry. The sages of ancient Athens were content to wield the xylospongion instead. It's the tale of toilet paper; the biography of bumfodder. |
Contents
The Wisdom Of The Ancients | |
On The | |
Inky Fingers | |
Paper Pushers | |
Cabinet of Curiosities | |
A Watery | |
Going Without | |
Conclusion | |
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