[Sca-cooks] The noise of modern life

[ysabeau]

There have been a couple of times when the power has gone out at 
night. The sudden silence usually wakes me up. You forget about 
the hum of the ceiling fan. The refrigerator in the kitchen. Even 
lightbulbs emit a faint humming noise that we all get used to.

So for me, it isn't the different sounds that are hard to get used 
to, it is the lack of ambient noise. 

I still vividly remember the smells from when I lived in 
Indonesia. In the area of Aceh where I lived, there wasn't much 
industry so you could smell the dirt and leaves. The smell of the 
coconuts when they were freshly chopped down and cut open is 
particularly vivid...along with the smell of the street sewers 
when we went to town.

My thoughts,
Ysabeau


~snip~
>I imagine though that if you were suddenly thrown back into the  
>Middle Ages, it might be the different sounds that you would 
notice  
>the most. Of course, I imagine the smells would be rather 
different  
>as well.
>
>Stefan
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Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
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