--- Heather Rose Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
<snip>
>
> There's an even better example in Walter Map's "De
> Nugis Curialium"
> where he tells a story of a monk whose order
> disdained underpants as
> being too luxurious, so that when he took a tumble
> in the street he
> exposed his ... parts for all and sundry to see.
> Walter gives the
> moral of the story as something roughly equivalent
> to "sometimes
> discretion is the better part of asceticism".
>
> Heather
Do you know where in De Nugis Curialium this story is?
I've been wanting to follow up this reference for
quite a while, but the book is reference only, and
rather thick, so I can't justify an entire photocopy.
/Lena
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