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...hurry down the chimney tonight...
...hurry down the chimney tonight...
Even so, by the age of five the classical holiday commercials depicting Santa crawling down a chimney with a sack full of toys began to grate on my developing rationality. I enumerated a number of problems with the "Santa Hypothesis" ordered by degree of disquietude created: 1) The Logistical Problem: Too many houses existed to visit them all in one night. Counter-argument: Santa might have been able to slowdown or stop time. 2) The Production Problem: The availability of raw materials at the North Pole seemed fairly limited. Also, Santa Inc. did not seem like a viable business, what...
...trouble, of course, is that most of the heat flows up the chimney. Count Rumford's 18th century fireplace design (shallower, built to throw more heat back into the room) helps a bit, but the basic idea remains Paleolithic. There have been times during subzero winter power blackouts when we have pulled a futon next to the fire and slept there, curled up as close as we could get to the heat without igniting the blankets. On the other hand, the wood stove in the kitchen radiates efficient gemutlichkeit--a cloying heat, like the house on a Thanksgiving afternoon that...
...their adopted child because most of the work on this baby was done in 1947 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the original architect. As power stations go, Bankside was a looker, which is to say that it's a hulking lunker of a building with a tapering chimney that doesn't so much echo the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral on the opposite side of the river as flip it the bird. Nevertheless it has a happy squat symmetry, enhanced by groups of narrow windows that stripe nearly the entire height of the building. It also has size, which...