12-08-2008, 03:55 PM
You could look on the problem of the sponge in more simple way.
Rableais depicts crazy amount of possibilities to clean this part of the body with different things. Of course it's a kind of joke for him but it's possible that people in that times could use as toilet paper as example big leaves of different plants. Roman cities - it wasn't such concrete jungles as New York - without grass, trees etc., chip pieces of textiles in winter times - so it wasn't necessary to keep sponge with yourself or to use one sponge for every visitor of the toilet.
Rableais depicts crazy amount of possibilities to clean this part of the body with different things. Of course it's a kind of joke for him but it's possible that people in that times could use as toilet paper as example big leaves of different plants. Roman cities - it wasn't such concrete jungles as New York - without grass, trees etc., chip pieces of textiles in winter times - so it wasn't necessary to keep sponge with yourself or to use one sponge for every visitor of the toilet.
