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To: Crocodile who wrote (43984)	12/26/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<<Could it be that all of the US below...uhm... the 40th parallel has cracked off and fallen into the ocean...???>>> LOL! That's exactly what i was thinking. I better drive up in the mountains and look out! I like your fresh snow talk. A bunch, you sweetie you. That always amazes me too. Getting to be, or having to be, the first person who disturbs all that perfect covering. I wish there was a name for this process. A definition-type name. The process where Nature deposits stuff, like beach sand or snow or leaves, and does it without effort, "randomly", and then it gets messed with, disturbed, usually by hooomans. Somebody rides their mini-bike through there. There's no "real cost" to the environment of the disruption, like when a chain saw cuts, a dozer dozes, a fire immolates ~ but there is a cost in terms of change in order. And it's almost impossible to put back. Even tho nature's deposition was effortless and haphazard, to restore it's pristeen sheet of perfect white is impossible after it's been snow-angel-ed. Whenever I see those first human "imprints", disruptions, this feeling-problem-contrast appears to me. The sharp joint between undisturbed and disturbed. And how "destructive" the disturbance, even minor, is to the whole order. The first color to paper. The first extreme skier. I imagine the word entropy is in here somewhere, but i hate that freeking term. It's not good enough. Descriptive. "Intuitive." And yes, the human disturbance is part of the same continuum. That's not what I mean and if you keep poking me with that I'm going to smack you. A piece of glass, a window, nice and flat, even vertically, until you break it. Good luck fixing that. That's why people usually get new glass. "Hmmm. This isn't going to be easy. I wish there was some place we could get a new piece." A little match, a Victorian four-story. Before and after. Some of these, those, things, however, had large inputs of order by the hands of man, though. (E.g., a house.) But a snowfall or a still pond is a surface extraordinary. And incredibly simple, natural, at the same time. [Who cares? Yah. That's what I hear from one third of my brain, the third in back.] But try to put snow back on a branch. Try to re-attach a row of icicles. From extreme order to disorder. I sometimes think these temporary things like snow and leaves unraked and pond ice are things that teach us what destruction is like, without having to destroy. Destroy anything "valuable", like a town or a life or an animal. Practice. Practice disruptions. Annihilations. That don't cost too much, except to beauty or purity or time. The surface of a lake, when it seems still and beautiful and reflective, and how it looks after you jump in there. "dis-turb." "Turb" is a funny word.