Entropy again
I remember Stanislav Lem once talking about gravity in one of his books, where aliens (or was it Golem…no, I think it was aliens) encountered humans and analysed them and their behaviour. They observed that human beings are not very developed and still fight their daily fight against gravity. They are rather obsessed by gravity. Women face their gravity problem more on the upper half, men a little bit further down. Now, Lem must have talked about gravity some 20 years ago. In the mean time we have surgery for Ms. and chemistry for Mr.
My personal fight is more entropy related. Being somewhat on the creative side of life I miss some practical skills such as thinking about shelves and making them and putting them on the wall and then putting stuff on the shelves instead of having them fill the guest room. Or get an additional cellar room to store the 25 litre cans. In the end, it all boils down to entropy, an expanding universe of bottles, scents, boxes, envelopes, flyers, papers, ethanol cans, mods, and this universe is expanding rather swiftly, without getting any colder.
But lucky me, I have W., the big, big entropy fighter, he did the shelves and together we moved around some boxes and cans and stuff. And with the RĂªverie au jardin maturing in the 25 lt can, there was time to draw the line and make a deep cut.
Getting rid of all lavender related mods, tests of new ideas, individual lines such as the rose&thyme, dump it all to make room, literally and figuratively, to allow the entropy building up somewhere else.
They will meet the incinerator, the 1000°C end of modifications, next week. Fragrant smoke over Zurich, ahhhh before I forget…I will have to order new mod-bottles, now that there is space again ;-)
February 21st, 2007 at 8:44 am
But, but, but… you can’t t just bump these bottles into the incinerator - can you?? Holy smoke darling, but first of all - the environment and recycling issue (glass bottles goes into the glass recycling bin - right??), then putting fire to gasoline (okey, all perfumery materials then ;-))??? Sure sounds like living verrrry dangerously to me.
But are you realy throwing away all mods? I could never do that…..why not make use them in linen or room sprays?
Need to go and start a fire, in the fireplace:-D It was -15C when we woke up, quite nippy.
Love,
Ylva
February 21st, 2007 at 10:34 am
What a beautiful bin! and yes, recycle, recycle, recycle… And post me anything you like! ;-P
February 21st, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Andy,
these samples of some smells you promised once, they are not going in there? I am really curious to sniff things which I haven’t, surely it will be better than DTT.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Ah Ylva… you did it! You made me flush and feel sorry. But I just wanted to go to bed yesterday and I just through things away. I am a very good recycler (thanks to W.) and we separate glass, paper, metal, plastic , you name it! But not my little glass bottles with scents in it.
In a sense, don’t get me wrong, please: It is like a cleansing process. Turn the page, finish with a theme and move on…. thus, I will continue recylcling the rest, but these few grams of glass will end up being molten and end up somewhere on the streets (they recylcle what is left after burning the household trash)
Dear Leopoldoe, well, yes… I will recycle…
February 21st, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Sounds like karmic housecleaning to me.
Sometimes, it’s a good thing.
Do you feel a sense of relief ?
Then it was the thing to do…
No point in second-guessing now.
Love you, boychik.
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:45 pm
This got me thinking fo some Swedish artists that recycle glasswares for their new creations - glasses, bowls and sculptures. Imagine what would happen if they got your mod bottles to make tabllware or artwork. Swedish class art with a Swiss scent:-D