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Sir: I assume Martyn Harris (Arts, 14 March) was serious in his request for com- ments on the ethics of peeing in front of a lady in a Wagon Lit while holding the Sovereign's commission, and depose as fol- lows: 1. Sleeping cars provide a chamber pot in
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a small cupboard or alcove beneath the basin. To prefer the basin itself must there- fore indicate a desire for exhibition.
2. This need not, in itself, be discourte- ous, nor can the performer's rank or regi- ment have anything to do with the matter. I myself was not in the Brigade but in a very passable regiment of Light Infantry, and a female chum thought she was shaming nei- ther me nor the 53rd when she asked me to pee in full view for her enlightenment and, as soon became plain, for her delectation. Though the receptacle she suggested was not the basin in a Wagon Lit but the bath in a friend's house during a party, I cannot see that this affects the principles involved. Simon Raven
73 Church Street, Walmer, Kent
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