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This made me think of a joking short poem by Galileo Galilei, "Against the Donning of the Gown".* A passage: I now conclude, and turn to you, signior,
And force you to confess, against your will,
The Greatest Good will be all clothes to abhor.
Think, if you please, of happy times gone by and
Of times when malice and deceit were still unknown,
And things under the stars went hand in hand;
You will then see that, not only when alone,
But all the time, in rain and weather fair
Man went unclothed, both young and fully grown.
Nothing at all, no knickers did they wear,
So that, what good there was, but also what of bad,
Was well exposed, out in the open air.
* The translation is by Giovanni Bignami |