Shithole

"You know," he said at last, "I wish you'd just look how that little dog's shithole opens up every time he barks."

“When it come,” Jamal said, “we just gotta pray suckas don't go mad dog—tearin' each other whole new shitholes.”

. In 'The Shit Sermon', where a drunk delivers a philippic against Bombay, shit pervades the text, and is in fact irreverently correlated with God: God is great, he says. He has given all his creatures, great and small, two holes: a feedhole and a shithole, and he will provide .

Perhaps Derrida is recalling Rembrandt's drawing Abraham's Sacrifice. If this is the work of art, why "tear it to pieces" (dechirer) and ram it down the shithole? Is Abraham, father of the Jewish faith, a shit, perhaps the shit that the System proper must flush away?

Two Roman soldiers digging latrines joke about later recounting the experience to their children back home, the ritual of having 'dug a shithole on the edge of the world'.

Too tired to run anymore. Hungry for the end. His feet scrambled. Like a cat digging a shithole.

Two of them were dragging a new member of the dead towards the cart by the shithole.

The latrine is bright white and clean to a fault, an almost garish contrast to the dark, hardscrabble forward operating base just beyond the metal doors. The two young soldiers are shaving at the long line of sinks and mirrors. One says, "Man, I had a dream last night I was in the shithole."