She preferred to relegate them to a back room or outhouse, a kind of secret space with a single chair where she could go and sit with the pictures all around her on her own.
This one has the feel of an old brick outhouse – cold concrete floor, exposed brickwork.
TODAY it is a small stone outhouse with boarded-up windows in a car park at the rear of the Edinburgh University building.
Conversation was sparse, and devoted to frogs; leisure moments to removing leeches, which were dropped into a pile of salt on the outhouse floor.
This is not necessarily true of those who can relieve themselves sanitarily without recourse to the outhouse.
In Kathryn Stockett's novel "The Help", set in the early 1960s, a black maid is fired for using an indoor toilet rather than braving a tornado to use the outhouse; her revenge, involving a chocolate pie, is not for the squeamish.Times have changed.
The more liberal listen to news headlines via a special 411 telephone number that can be reached via their outhouse telephones.
The cardboard box (a 2005 inductee) is low-cost, and can be a castle or an outhouse.
Her house had no inside lavatory; to find the outhouse she had run string from her cramped house to the outhouse door.
She would crawl to the outhouse, grasping the string in one hand.Such squalid living arrangements are not all that remarkable among America's 2.4m Indians, 85% of whom live in remote parts of the western United States.
As in "Legend of a Suicide", Gary, the hero of "Caribou Island", is trying to escape a lifetime of failures, with one epic new venture: building a log cabin, which barely keeps out the wind, with an outhouse and no running water, where he hopes to live year-round.
