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AgProv2 Started conversation Feb 21, 2007
"Diogenes' power lay in the fact that he was untouchable" - after having not washed for twenty odd years I should imagine anyone would be untouchable... I wonder if this unsavoury aspect of Cynicism is the origin of early Christian ideas re. physical uncleanliness being a sign of the mortification of the body in favour of the spirit?
(After all, cleanliness is next to Godliness only in a very strange dictionary...)
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The H2G2 Editors Posted Feb 21, 2007
>>> After all, cleanliness is next to Godliness only in a very strange dictionary... 
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Pimms Posted Feb 21, 2007
Contrariwise Pigpen in Peanuts stated
"Cleanliness is next to impossible"
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