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Tonight, we'll read an excerpt about traveling to a high alpine winter resort from a book called Winter

Sports in Switzerland, written by E. 1913. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer.

Let's get cozy.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body. Relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now, take a few deep breaths.

High alpine resorts in winter are a conjuring trick of a glorious and luminous kind.

Our common sense, based on experience, tells us that ice is cold but is melted by heat, and

that snow is wet, and that unless you put on a great coat when the thermometer registers frost you

will feel chilly and that if you frequently fall down in the snow you will be wet through.

And if you do not change your clothes when you return home, you'll catch a cold.

All these things are quite obvious and he who does not grant

them as premises to whatever conclusion we may happen to base them on is clearly not to be argued with, but

soothed and comforted, like a child, or taking care of like a lunatic.

But high alpine winter resorts give, apparently, ocular disprove of all these obvious statements and those who go out to these

selectable altitudes in favorable seasons C which is ocular evidence, every day and all day the exact opposite of these

primitively simple prepositions regularly and continually taking place.

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