In a message dated 2/26/01 2:10:40 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< A book on a similar theme regarding those one-use holes and the proper way
 to hide your doo doo is titled "How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally
 Sound Approach to A Lost Art." by Kathleen Meyer, and published here in the
 U. S. You can find in on Amazon.com. Though it is not exactly on privies as
 standing vernacular architecture, or totally tongue-in-cheek, it covers the
 act for which privies are built and might be an interesting sidebar to your
 thesis.
  >>
And, let us not forget the tell-tale "white flags" out on field survey that
mark potty stations of the unprepared. I can not tell you how many panties,
jockey shorts and boxer shorts I have seen flying over bushes on my field
surveys over the past 32 years.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.