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Encyclopedia WinterCampica - Suggest Change
Current Entry: Bathroom Reading
When you're going for a long stay, even in a latrine, you sometimes need a little light reading to keep you company. Some campers have solved this by taking along a copy of Origins, Encyclopedia WinterCampica, the Winter Camp News, or some other work of Winter Camp literature. The new Beaver Creek shower building is well-lit, heated, and generally a decent place for reading. Sadly, the most interesting things one finds to read there are signs reminding you to obey the camp speed limit or to "use a courtisy [sic] flush" as the toilets "plug up easy [sic]".
In the old days, though, the Beaver Creek latrine featured on its walls a work of genius, the author of which was only revealed in 2008, though some had long suspected his identity. John Howey and Steve Donohue had mentioned the old scrawl in 2007 and wondered if anyone remembered the exact words, but no one did. Mark Bolllman--> mentioned it to his brother Dan, who came up with the information that it was a passage from a song by the Doors. Mark--> Googled the final sentence (which he remembered) and the word "Doors", and the first result ended the mystery. Here now are the words which fascinated Arrowmen in stall 3 of the Beaver Creek latrine for years:
Lions in the street and roaming
Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming
A beast caged in the heart of a city
The body of his mother
Rotting in the summer ground
He fled the town
He went down South and crossed the border
Left the chaos and disorder
Back there over his shoulder
One morning he awoke in a green hotel
With a strange creature groaning beside him
Sweat oozed from its shiny skin
Is everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin.
The lyrics are from the Doors song "The Celebration of the Lizard". (SD)