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The very string with which I tied him -- too
Winter exacerbates the usual human needs because it adds the extra pressures of darkness and cold. Everything must be done as quickly as possible in order to thwart the cold, even as the cold retards movement. Distances can’t be measured in the usual way—they take longer in foul weather and then you’ve got to factor in time to recover.
Also: darkness. There is just less time in the day to do things. The days compress, lightwise, but stretch out in the way that a cold five-minute wait feels twice as long. And just when you think winter should end—February, say—it turns out to be only halfway through.
