--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@...> wrote: > > Talking of the south entrance at the Co-Ed, I once had a girlfriend who > refused to enter the Co-Ed for that very reason, so on one particular day we > had to go all the way to Iowa City to see a movie that was playing right here > in Fairfield! Why did I agree to do it? Alas, I was in love with her.
Ah, love, that compromise between losing oneself in a universal feeling and still desiring something on that individual level. Learning to ride that compromise is one of the greatest of all journeys. I do not think I ever thought about the south entrance of the Co-Ed theatre. I remember I was once on the MIU campus, in one of the buildings that faced south. They had not chained off the doors yet, but I recall having to go in a back basement entrance and crawl up stairs amid junk stored there. On exiting I forgot I 'was not supposed to use a south entrance'. I went out the south entrance through opening both the sides of the double door. It was a beautiful crisp Autumn day, it was blindingly beautiful, and one of the best experiences I ever had on that campus. South entrance is a flat Earth mentality. If you are in the northern hemisphere, and exit an east entrance, and walk in the most economical straight line (great circle route on a sphere, the way aeroplanes fly long distances), and keep walking (or swimming as the case may be), you will end up in the southern hemisphere. Such is the nature of any east direction in the northern hemisphere except dead on the Equator. At the North Pole, the only direction is south. So, unless you are on the Equator, or in the Southern Hemisphere, when you face east, you are always partially facing south, and the southern component increases as your latitude is further north.
