[lit-ideas] Re: Hmmm... all hype?
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:41:49 -0800
On Feb 12, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Eric wrote:
On the other hand, it is so nice to go to the countryside where one
can get away with vacuuming only once a week.
Surely we should take a moment to celebrate the adaptability of the
human form. Eric's contention is that there is approximately seven
times as much dust and crud in New York air than there is out in the
countryside--I'm guided in this assertion only by the frequency of
vacuuming. And yet in the countryside people plough the land, burn
refuse, drive diesel-spewing machines, cut down trees, wear high
heels...
What's my point? I just wonder if the decision about when to vacuum
has a psychological component. Isn't household dust mostly
sloughed-off skin and therefore a function of how many people pass
through the space?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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