[lit-ideas] Re: The Philosophy of Air-Conditioning
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:19:50 EDT
In a message dated 7/27/2010 6:08:01 P.M., mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Forms of life near the equator are horribly
predatory: parasitic plants, insects the size of
terriers, Dickens as read in Evelyn Waugh novels
... doesn't that say something about sunlight? The
stronger the sunlight the more brutal the life
forms. Hmmm.
Repeat after me: The cold is my friend. (Reminder
to reread Call of the Wild and White Fang,
especially the opening chapters of the latter.)
The cold is my friend.
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It depends on your point of view, I assume.
As Geary notes, some people get more bothersome about heat, some more
bothersome about cold. In general, it's the HEAT they complain more about.
Unless it's the cold. As Geary says, "it depends on your point of view" (of
things). This Popper calls "Perspectivism".
In general, Equator (the country in South America -- named after the line
called "Equator") seems very hot, and indeed Darwin was right that the
animals in the Galapagos (which belong officially to Equator) are beastly.
Darwin felt relaxation studying the "finches" -- he found 46 sub-species of
the
common finch in Galapagos ("the reason for their multiple existence still
unknown to me", he comments in his Diary to his sister).
Darwin should have gone to Alaska and study the wild life there. He did
note that the grouse (a Scots bird) gets white plumage in the winter ("no
doubt to exhude the heat waves," he hypothesised).
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The first air-conditioner, incidentally, was built in Sweden.
Speranza
Bordighera
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