The eclectic mind thinks about everything all the time even during the oddest moments making surreal connections. The common route I use to take Belle (my dog) for a walk at one point encounters a really nice curve in road. I mean it’s a curve that is beautiful. In my first year studying philosophy at Essex Uni we were shown by the lecturer a series of slides depicting a simple ‘S’ curve. We were asked to choose which of the various options all ‘S’ shapes of the same size and thickness we thought was the most beautiful, aesthetically. Some of the shapes were bulbous and others tending to be flatter but there was one slide that showed an ‘S’ that was neither full nor bulbous nor mean and flat. It was simply perfect to my mind. The odd thing was that all the other 200 or so students in the hall all thought the same. Why? Who knows? Do we have an innate sense of beauty and appropriateness? Any way back to Belle and out daily walk along the curve...we were walking in a clockwise direction around the wonderful bend in the road when I suddenly thought "do runners in races ever run clockwise?" I racked my brain for evidence and the result was, after much deliberation, that I think every race I have seen is run anti-clockwise! But why? Would running in the other direction disorientate the athletes? Would it mean their times would be slower? Is it something to with gravity?
Answers on a postcard please! or on this blog!
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