Comments on: Dancing Ants https://livingwithscleroderma.com/dancing-ants/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Mon, 04 Mar 2024 22:33:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/dancing-ants/#comment-88353 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 22:33:21 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=9810#comment-88353 In reply to Patricia Bizzell.

Haha! As I recall, my sister and I experimented with centrifugal force, and we discovered that if you place a toy on a spinning turntable, the toy does not enjoy a ride around and around, but flies off on a tangent from the circumference of the circle described thereof. 🙂

]]> By: Patricia Bizzell https://livingwithscleroderma.com/dancing-ants/#comment-88348 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:46:03 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=9810#comment-88348 I assume Clancy the Ant wore fancy pants and a grand straw hat while dancing?!? Just trying to keep the assonance going.
What a hoot to see your illustration of the old 45 record player. My sister and I had one too. My parents didn’t know from classical music but fortunately, Walt Disney did, and we had 45s of all the pieces for which his talented studio created cartoon representations. This developed my taste for Russian classical music (Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky). (I’m trusting spell-check here.) I remember that we left “The Nutcracker Suite” revolving on the turntable when we went out to play one afternoon and when we came back–horrors!–the machine had overheated and warped the little 45 into a wavy stale pancake. Lesson learned!

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