AtD translation: This was spirit, after all.

[Mike Jing]

But what does it have to do with altitude and barometric pressure though?
Is it because spirit also means "breath"?


On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 2:35 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> One of the words for people who are feisty and resistant to being bullied
> is ”spirited”.  Does that answer your question?
> > On Apr 10, 2018, at 2:00 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > P172.26-32   Did something, something essential, happen to human
> > personality above a certain removal from sea level? Many quoted Dr.
> > Lombroso’s observation about how lowland folks tended to be placid and
> > law-abiding while mountain country bred revolutionaries and outlaws. That
> > was over in Italy, of course. Theorizers about the recently discovered
> > subconscious mind, reluctant to leave out any variable that might seem
> > helpful, couldn’t avoid the altitude, and the barometric pressure that
> went
> > with it. This was spirit, after all.
> >
> > What is being implied by the last sentence?
> >
> > P.S.
> > I've been working on a translation of Solaris for about a month. There's
> > another book coming up as well, but I'll try to squeeze in some work on
> AtD
> > whenever I can.
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