On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:19 PM, <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote: > The smell of bacon in the morning may waft languidly through the house. At > least > my bacon does. This does not imply the image of "floating here and there" in > the > sense that 2 views or propositions are individuated as discrete items and we > end > up moving back and forth repeatedly between them. That is precisely what it > means to "waver between ..." The scent of bacon "wafts" throughout the house, > in a wide variety of directions. It lingers not simply "here and there" but > here and there and everywhere. > > (In truth, this is the kind of concept that only Russians are able to > comprehensively understand: evanescent and fleeting, yet identifiable and > communicable.) > Now this is of course a combination of diffusion and convection and perhaps the fan in your house and, in my opinion, IS the essence of wafting. p ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html