Left & Right, North & South
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It’s a little-known fact that I mix up left and right on an occasional, but nonetheless alarming, basis.
Another annoying lapse in synaptical élan occurs – and occured yet again last night in fact, this after more than decade in the northern hemisphere – when, coming out of some station squinting into daylight or neon, grafting the carefully gleaned mental image of the street map from which I extracted the sought-for address (carried from home to destination in the chilled cooler bag of my rushed little memory like a donated organ ambulanced between hospitals) onto the uncooperative urban actualities sprawled before me, I find myself struck with what we can call galloping antipodeanism: 180° disoriention north and south.
You can take the boy out of the southern hemisphere…
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Posted to Little-known Facts • 2002.05.17 (Fri) • 12:56
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Posted by Scott 2002.05.21, 15:33
I must of gleaned over this post previously, however looking at it a second time, I realised (10 or so years after that fact) how disorientated I was when looking at maps in Europe. More often than not, I found myself going in the opposite direction. Does residing in the opposite hemisphere actually effect your sense of direction?
Posted by Jeff 2002.05.25, 21:54
Scott, it’s my experience that it does. When I was in New Zealand and discussing this with a local he told me that recently there were reports of unscrupulous real estate agents in that country trying to sell houses with “wonderful southern exposures!”
It took me a while to reorient myself while in the southern hemisphere. However, I had a more major problem when I first visited Japan. Having grown up on the “eastern” shore of the Pacific (L.A.), I became amazingly mixed up when it came to east-west directions in Nihon. To me, the Pacific was always West.
Posted by OUT 2 FAR 2005.10.12, 16:43
man was it me or did you have to consult a dictionary to get any of that jist. he made very clear point but u needed to be in that mans state of mind to comprehend that jibbrish
Posted by Carl 2005.10.12, 18:30
no I think it was just you…..
wonders about some people
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