She’s so good.  What’s it take? Hot tea, bubble-bath, massage.  Humans are simple creatures.

Germans lost any sensitivity about nudity in the 19th century.  To this day, the women can still shock Americans by coolly — in every sense — hiking in the woods with no shirt.  Although I think the actual incident had more to do with the question about whether or not her pack-straps chaffed.  The American who reported this to me said the German had replied:  “Oh, I have callouses there.”