To Build a Fire, by Jack London

Il me semblait bien… ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/325898
J’avais juste pas choisi la même.

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hi hi, oui je reconnais que cette photo des toilettes est glaçante... :)

Alors, tu imagines celles-ci en hiver : dans l’Altaï à 2600 m d’altitude. ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/202504

A propos de #aglagla, sur le danger mortel que représente ce froid extrème, Jack London nous a laissé une déscription effrayante.

To Build A Fire, By Jack London
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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man’s frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man’s place in the universe. Fifty degrees below zero stood for a bite of frost that hurt and that must be guarded against by the use of mittens, ear-flaps, warm moccasins, and thick socks. Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty degrees below zero. That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that never entered his head.

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