[lit-ideas] Re: Heat (variation on Revolution)
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:38:09 -0700
Julie wrote:
>This heat, humidity, unusually high swarms of flies and mosquitoes are
>>turning me agoraphobic.
ck: YES! I've been contending that this anxiety response to an overheated
environment qualifies as a form of seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Even in a
hot climate like the Central Valley of CA (Fresno, that is), an upsurge in
temperature--to 110 from the usual 95 to 100-- turns many people into hermits.
That natural, even life-saving response often generalizes into behavior that
resembles agoraphobia. Or becomes agoraphobia, especially in people with a
tendency towards anxiety disorders. (Uh, did this explanation reek of
psychobabble? Gotta work on that...)
best,
Carol 99
----- Original Message -----
From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:23 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: A Revolution in the USA?
How can either of you sit out in a garden right now? You'll be eaten alive
by mosquitoes in minutes. I was out to put my dog on the line and my legs are
covered with bites.
This heat, humidity, unusually high swarms of flies and mosquitoes are
turning me agoraphobic.
Julie Krueger
in a semi-cool room relatively insect free.
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: A Revolution in the
USA?
Date: 8/14/06 4:20:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent on:
> I was responding to the comments by Rellikgnik on the Amazon
site not to
> Lawrence. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear.
it was clear, Helen; I added in a comment of Lawrence's.
> It is too hot for a Canadian -
ah -- yes; it was too hot here for Brits in July and early in
August,
and will be again; not as hot as it is there but high 80s and
very humid.
> My daughter finally got home late last night after a
near-accident in a
> torrential downpour in South Carolina.
I had a homecoming like that once... at least she is home now.
> wishing she were sitting in her mother's garden with a glass of
herb tea and
> dubonnet
I like dubonnet and I like your mother's garden. Mine is
unfortunately
extraordinarily scruffy, but I may sit out in it again now it's
cooler
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Wishart" <hwishart@xxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:13 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: A Revolution in the USA?
> I was responding to the comments by Rellikgnik on the Amazon
site not to
> Lawrence. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear.
>
> It is too hot for a Canadian - a humid 96 in the shade and much
higher in
> the pedestrain walk in the university core where you can almost
hear the
> concrete sizzling.
>
> My daughter finally got home late last night after a
near-accident in a
> torrential downpour in South Carolina. They hydroplaned across
four lanes of
> traffic and spun around twice.
>
> Which supports my contention that a person has a greater chance
of being
> pulverized on a US highway than in a US airplane -terrorists
> notwithstanding.
>
>
> Helen A Wishart
> wishing she were sitting in her mother's garden with a glass of
herb tea and
> dubonnet instead of mending comma splices in a swamp
>
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