Greetings and Salutations
2002-02-22-2020.
> At 9:59 PM +0000 2/21/02, BEThexton wrote:
> >Of course, from the women's point of view the men go in when the fire
> >is barely dying down and it is ridiculously hot, while the women go
> >at the optimum time when it is still hot but not insanely so.
> >
> >Alternatively, they go on different days, and in the women's view
> >they just know how to set fires better to get just the right
> >conditions.
> >
> >It is sort of like cooking chili--"most" women are proud when
> >everyone says how tasty it is and ask for seconds, "most" men are
> >proud when everyone says how hot it is, and nobody but them can
> >finish their bowl.
>
"Peter Larsen" wrote:
> That's more what I was thinking -- something to unite our
> stead in familial bickering and friendly grousing.
A stead with a sauna is a stead without Kinstrife.
... Aeolia, where the storm-clouds have their home, a place teeming with furious winds from the south. Here Aeolus is king, and in a vast cavern he controls the brawling winds and the roaring storms, keeping them curbed and fettered in their prison. Resentfully they rage from door to door in the mountainside, protesting loudly, while Aeolus sits in his high citadel, sceptre in hand, taming their arrogance and controlling their fury.
Virgil. The Aeneid.
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