mass sex-action brought out the riot squad of the Police Department

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The class war between Villagers and the owners of the eating-place was waged at Life Cafeteria. Unfortunately the owners of the huge self-service restaurant and the Villagers differed materially on the meaning of the word "cafeteria." According to the proprietors of "Life" the cafeteria was a business venture and not a philanthropic experiment. They had established a restaurant, not a public meeting place for Villagers to weave endless carpets of conversation, embroidered with strange designs for living taken from Sappho, Buddha, Plato, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, Tolstoy, the Marquis de Sade and Spengler. They were serving not manna from heaven, but food that must be paid for with cash. The rest rooms were built for certain biological functions, and not for romantic assignations between members of the third or intermediate sex. Villagers argued that the owners of "Life" had made a grievous semantic mistake. A cafeteria was primarily a refuge for talkers, not eaters, and if the talk ended on an erotic note, the rest rooms were the proper places to celebrate the rites of Venus or Priapus.