The title of this post is only in fun. No, there's no evidence that the famous American author was secretly into WAM. But there is a passage in Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" about the joys of playing in the mud. Upper class repression vs. lower class fun:
From Chapter 3:
"In summer, sir, we wade and swim in the canals and in the river, and each doth duck his neighbor, and spatter him with water, and dive and shout and tumble and"--
"'Twould be worth my father's kingdom but to enjoy it once! Prithee go on."
"We dance and sing about the Maypole in Cheapside; we play in the sand, each covering his neighbor up; and times we make mud pastry--oh, the lovely mud, it hath not its like for delightfulness in all the world!--we do fairly wallow in the mud, sir, saving your worship's presence."
"Oh, prithee, say no more, 'tis glorious! If that I could but clothe me in raiment like to thine, and strip my feet, and revel in the mud once, just once, with none to rebuke me or forbid, meseemeth I could forego the crown!"
There was a line in the novelisation of E.T. about the mother having face-cream all over her face and feeling like she'd been hit with a pie, and it made a big impression on the young Me. Maybe we should start a Wam-in-literature thread...
(I realise we've gone from Mark Twain to E.T in two posts, so maybe 'literature' isn't the right word, but Hey.)
I agree: He's WAM-smitten, hiding it a bit in the dialect of a royal. On the other hand, people were less squeamish about certain pleasures, a century and a half ago. The mid and late 20th Century was a disaster for any kind of normalcy - swinging from the hyper-conservative to the flagrantly narcissistic.
"In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact." -Marlene Dietrich
I distinctly remember in high school a teacher saying something about essays written by Thomas Jefferson and his sploshing ways. Wetlook in the White House? I wouldn't be surprised! lol
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