DE URINA

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In her volume of short stories, entitled "Seven Gothic Tales," the Danish writer Isak Dinesen puts into the mouth of an Arab, sailing along the coast of Africa by starlight, the speculation: "What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?" When you come to think on him, man is many things, depending on your point of view. One may add that man is also an ingenious machine for unravelling the infinite artfulness of himself, and it will come as no surprise when I assert that the study of urine has contributed as much to this self-analysis as has the study of any other single feature of his body. It was probably not until he abandoned the forest for the cave that man began to urinate into a pot and hence

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