The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
— Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Albert & Alberta discuss
Chemically speaking, Blixen rather oversimplified pharmacology. Yet one can't deny the elegance of prescribing sodium chloride in three distinct emotional viscosities.
It’s not chemistry, Albert, it’s architecture. She’s mapping the human release valves: labor, grief, and awe. Effort, vulnerability, or perspective.
A thermodynamic exhaust pipe, then. When internal entropy runs perilously high, either exert energy, weep openly, or stand beside a massive thermodynamic sink that makes your troubles mathematically negligible.
Exactly. You build a cathedral out of your crisis, or you let the ocean show you it's just a sandcastle. Either way, you don't stay trapped inside your own dry head.
Quite. Though knowing humans, they'll usually attempt a fourth option first: furiously pacing a small room while checking their notifications.