katherinestasaph asked: Talk for a paragraph about something. Anything.
But how do we define lightness? We mean all sorts of things when we call something light. We can mean weightless, like a feather; or easily digestible, like a biscuit; or airy and permeable, like lace; or fragile, like a bubble; or highly mobile, like a ballerina; or unnourishing, like a salad. All of which is, of course, depends on your point of view; feathers are not weighless in bulk, nor biscuits digestible to someone with a gluten allergy; lace isn’t airy if it’s wet, bubbles aren’t fragile if you’re a water strider, ballerinas aren’t mobile when they’re asleep, and plenty of people do just fine on nothing but salad. Let’s keep this variance in the back of our minds as we proceed, then, remembering that just because something can be described in a certain way doesn’t mean those properties are intrinsic to it; sometimes it’s just fun to make up names.
