Doet me een beetje denken aan het verhaal van Jasper Lawrence
die reisde in 2004 naar Kameroen om daar enkele weken bewust blootvoets rond te lopen in Latrine's en publieke toiletten daar, in de hoop geinfecteerd te worden door een parasitaire Rondworm
http://www.theguardian.co(...)r-lawrence-tim-adamsquote:
Lawrence is a practical man, and he weighed up the risks. In Cameroon he spent a couple of weeks travelling to remote villages, discovering where the local latrines were and wandering around the area without shoes.
What did the people make of this behaviour? "Typical reactions would range from being laughed at – what's that idiot doing walking round where I take a shit? – to anger: a lot of them were convinced I was there to steal some aspect of their essence. I got shaken down a lot."
He did have doubts. When he had told friends what he was going to do, they freaked out. Because his journey coincided with him having left his wife, people thought he was having a crisis or a breakdown. "You can't help but be a bit scared," he says. "The big fear was that I'd come back with the wrong disease, river blindness or elephantiasis, or Dengue fever, or whatever. On the other hand I had seen exactly how my life had declined in the last five years with asthma. Modern medicine seemed to have nothing to offer me except palliative drugs. So really, I felt there wasn't a choice for me." Disgust was hard to overcome. "I was only able to take my shoes off the first time because I couldn't face going back and telling people I hadn't been able to do it."
het lukt, hij werd geinfecteerd, uiteindelijk claimt hij hierdoor genezen te zijn van Asthma (wat verder niet bewezen kan worden, maar er lijken enige bewijzen te zijn dat dit soort parasitaire wormen idd een positief effect hebben op de ontwikkeling en het versterken van het immunsysteem en bv allergieen tegengaan)
"Whatever you feel like: Life’s not one color, nor are you my only reader" - Ausonius, Epigrammata 25