Euphemism

Here we are! As soon as I try to point out the truth, I'm considered a "garbage thrower". Now we have a 'new arrival' among us and welcome to him. Mr. Alex Wolvesperges (The Jakarta Post, June 20, 1995) considers my letters to be "nauseating". As a "garbage thrower" he made a good performance indeed! I don't think Mr. Alex needs to wear an "historical smoking" because garbage is still garbage even if it is wrapped in "pseudo- cultural" paper.

I followed classical studies and I certainly don't need to make my historical culture deeper in order to controvert his topics.

Mr. Alex didn't realize that the matter of 'bludgeons and caves' was just a euphemistic way to specify an historical period. I compliment his perspicacity.

I apologize for my unpardonable ignorance concerning the great discovery of the "famous Celtic soap" (some things escape my notice) but I'm sure that cleanliness also had great importance in old Roman civilization.

Cleanliness is an ancestral inheritance. Also at present, it happens that very often continental people have to explain to some islanders that the bidet is not a wash basin for violins.

Mr. Wolvesperges's reference to the Battle of Waterloo is appropriate. After having rejoiced at the end of dictatorships, people have to watch over their freedom to avoid a rise in any form of"crawling colonialism", which is exactly the aim of my letters.

PIERO RONCI

Jakarta