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Hygiene and offense-- deconstruction?
Jun. 15th, 2007 01:39 pmOk, I'm struggling with whether to use this story in my CA, because it's got social/ethnic/religious/political issues, which may or may not be relevant.
Several of my secondary sources repeat a story in which a Jew falls into a cesspool or privy on a Saturday, and refuses to be pulled out because to do so would violate the Sabbath. The local lordly authority consequently refuses to have him pulled out on the Sunday, since that would violate the Christian sabbath, and he perishes. Even if the story is a piece of history and not merely a Victorian, 'Enlightenment' or medieval urban legend, there is a lot of baggage in it.
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Several of my secondary sources repeat a story in which a Jew falls into a cesspool or privy on a Saturday, and refuses to be pulled out because to do so would violate the Sabbath. The local lordly authority consequently refuses to have him pulled out on the Sunday, since that would violate the Christian sabbath, and he perishes. Even if the story is a piece of history and not merely a Victorian, 'Enlightenment' or medieval urban legend, there is a lot of baggage in it.
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