There’s a useful pattern everybody knows about, but which I only noticed in my gut these last few years. If you want to not forget the North, the South, where’s East, where’s West, then watch the sky. You will find the Sun each morning laying low in the same direction in the sky. This is East, and every evening, Helios will go to rest opposing where it rose. This is West; now, in the tropics when it’s noon the Sun is overhead; in the northern lands the sun will watch you from the south. Can you guess its noonly perch in southern lands?
Pay attention to this pattern every day—with time, on all the days you’ll know the compass’s directions well.
(I know poetic style isn’t very popular on LessWrong. But I’ll write however I damn well please; trust me not because I transcribe my thoughts in truncated trochees, but trust me because I try to say what is true- the wordly tricks are a treat for myself)
There’s a useful pattern everybody knows about, but which I only noticed in my gut these last few years. If you want to not forget the North, the South, where’s East, where’s West, then watch the sky. You will find the Sun each morning laying low in the same direction in the sky. This is East, and every evening, Helios will go to rest opposing where it rose. This is West; now, in the tropics when it’s noon the Sun is overhead; in the northern lands the sun will watch you from the south. Can you guess its noonly perch in southern lands?
Pay attention to this pattern every day—with time, on all the days you’ll know the compass’s directions well.
(I know poetic style isn’t very popular on LessWrong. But I’ll write however I damn well please; trust me not because I transcribe my thoughts in truncated trochees, but trust me because I try to say what is true- the wordly tricks are a treat for myself)