Deep Freeze

If it’s true that we’re never so satisfied when it comes to weather, it’s also true that maybe we are, by nature, better suited to stand the heat than the cold.

“In a very cold night, even houses want to have houses of their own to enter inside them and feel warm,” said Mehmet Murat İldan. Noam Chomsky likes the cold weather, ‘cause “it means you get work done.” While for Edith Sitwell, “winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” A little more drastic, Hung Tzu-Ch’Eng, when he says that “warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it.” And everybody knows how that turned out for Jack Nicholson in The Shining.