AtD translation: This was spirit, after all.

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Joseph. Your response is always appreciated.


On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 12:02 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I was going to comment on this component , but not sure what was in
> question. Monte does a better job than I would have. There were also
> widespread emphasis on barometric pressure as causing headaches and
> affecting human temperament. The inclusion of “the uncoscious” into the mix
> seems just seems  like  a new basis of speculation.
>
> > On Apr 10, 2018, at 4:05 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > More generally than "breath," "spirit(s)" also means the light, airy,
> volatile component of anything: "spirits of camphor," or alcohol  distilled
> (upward) and then condensed (downward). Reduced gas pressure over a liquid
> also lowers its boiling point. So there's a spatial metaphor here that
> whatever "spirited" impulses of rebellion may be in the unconscious emerge
> more readily at higher altitudes.
> >
> > Mann's The Magic Mountain, much of which takes place at an Alpine
> sanitarium,  also works this cluster of metaphors hard in its alchemical
> themes of spiritual transformation..
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 3:44 AM, Mike Jing <
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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