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Large double-pane windows along the southern frontage of this enclosed porch... let winter sunlight strike the floor, which serves as a thermal mass. At night the floor releases its heat to warm adjoining rooms. Eye-level windows open to admit breezes; an overhang helps shade the windows during the warm months when the sun travels higher in the sky.

Better Homes and Gardens: Stretching Living Space, 1983

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redclaysoil

murano art glass pendant designed by carlo nason for mazzega, 1970s italy

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teaboot

I just want everyone to eat well and get old

every single one of us should have the chance to get old and bald and wrinkly and fat. I mean that sincerely

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T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

Yes! Eliot had read reports of a mission in Antartica where this exact thing had happened, so he incorporated it in the poem. There is a double meaning, obviously, because it's also a reference to Jesus on the road to Emmaus. But it is very much on purpose. He wrote:

 "The following lines were stimulated by the account of one of the Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think one of Shackleton's): it was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member than could actually be counted"

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