Sublime

These toxins seep out of our furniture made with formaldehyde and our sofas made with fire retardants

In 1515 the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus wrote in a letter that the floors of English houses ‘are, in general, laid with white clay, and are covered with rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is left undisturbed, sometimes for twenty years, harbouring expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale dr