Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Last Paragraph

From: Ivan Van Laningham ( ivanlan@pauahtun.org)
Date: 04 Dec 2004


Hi All--

robhenryson wrote:
>
> I got thrown by the "feather in a vacuum" line because the First image I had was of a
> feather in a vacuum *cleaner*, and I'm thinking "which part? is it in the vacuum bag? or is
> it like my crazy vacuum cleaner and cycloning the feather all over the place?" My mind was
> too literal for the simile to work on me. But the last line about her "bright head" *is* quite
> good.
>

Bright head's good, but if you drop a feather in a vacuum, it's going to behave exactly as if it were a pea, or a lead fishing weight. No air to slow it down, no wind to throw it off course. Remember Galileo.

<eppur-si-muove>-ly y'rs, Ivan
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