“He pointed to a mop leaning against his room wall. Like most mops in this country, it can be wrung by a sliding mechanism on the handle. He thinks that’s hysterical—absurd. In Zimbabwe everyone wrings mops with their hands.”
Frank Bruni
more infosource: “Doors Swinging Open,” New York Times, September 26, 2011.
category: Africa, America, cleaning, culture, mop, Zimbabwe
medium: Op-Ed
“When you sweep the house, you find everything.”
Proverb
more infosource: 1001 Yiddish Proverbs, by Fred Kogos (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1970), 59.
category: cleaning, home, proverb, sweep, Yiddish proverbs
medium: proverb
notes: Yiddish translation: Beim oiskern di shtub gefint men alts.
“It takes a particular lack of imagination to feel no discomfort in the presence of a cleaner.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 11:03 AM Apr 9, 2010 via web
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category: cleaning, imagination, Twitter pearls
medium: social media
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