Father Inire

Jeff Wilson · 04 Dec 2011, 00:41 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:41:27 -0600
Subject: (urth) Father Inire
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>> "saw someone ahead of me sitting (as I first thought) upon a high stool.  As I
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>> drew nearer, I found that what I had taken to be a stool was a stepladder, and
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>> that the old man perched on it was cleaning one of the pictures."
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> A stepladder, this time. Is Rudesind standing or sitting? Perching could be either.
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> It is most normal to  stand on a ladder, though a stepladder does offer the option
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> of sitting. I think standing is more normal in the course of doing work.

That's correct, but Sev affirmitively writes that he was sitting. the 
revision is in what he is sitting on, but not that he is sitting at all. 
Stepladders are mostly higher than high stools, so in order to maintain 
similar appearnces, the person on the stepladder needs to be taller than 
average in similar proportion.

If Rudesind is sitting on a stepladder smaller than a high stool, that 
indicates to me that he is trying to clean an area of canvas lower down 
than usual, and is doing so to avoid stooping.  this also is sometihng 
that a taller person than average would be given to do since they have 
all the farther to stoop.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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