{"id":427,"date":"2004-01-14T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2004\/01\/14\/la-ciudad-de-los-guantes-perdidos\/"},"modified":"2004-01-14T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2004-01-14T12:50:18","slug":"la-ciudad-de-los-guantes-perdidos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2004\/01\/14\/la-ciudad-de-los-guantes-perdidos\/","title":{"rendered":"La ciudad de los guantes perdidos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a602'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ratio of right-handed people to left-handed people is said to be about nine to one (and this dominance goes back more than a million years, apparently), so the lost-glove theory espoused by Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist who taught at Hunter College last fall, either needs work or suggests that New York is more of a lefty town than most. Last winter, Horowitz began collecting the misplaced&#x2014;trampled, forlorn, snot-slicked&#x2014;mittens and gloves that she saw on the street, not for the sake of research or even, God forbid, art, but out of some deep-seated altruistic urge to see them reunited with their other halves. <\/p>\n<p>&#x201C;It&#x2019;s an overweening concern for lost objects,&#x201D; she said last week&#x2014;a very cold week, a great week for gloves. &#x201C;The melancholy of a lost glove sitting in the middle of a sidewalk struck me as minorly tragic, for the glove and for its owner.&#x201D; Horowitz, who is tall and skinny and thirty-four years old, was in her family&#x2019;s apartment on Central Park West, with her collection in shopping bags on the kitchen counter: a hundred and eighteen mittens and gloves, in varying states of deformity and decay. Black wool dominated, but there was, semi-Arkishly, one of everything: brown zippered faux leather (Lower East Side), tan elbow-length nylon (Lincoln Center), a ludicrous boxing glove (center lane, Columbus Avenue). There were dozens of children&#x2019;s gloves, of course, including Horowitz&#x2019;s first find, a crusty blue mitten, and some thumbless things for infants (and even one for a dog). Central Park is full of little mittens, she said, especially on snowy nights, after the sledders head home. Storefronts, pay phones, subway stairs&#x2014;O city of lost gloves!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nY es que precisamente andamos con un guante s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ratio of right-handed people to left-handed people is said to be about nine to one (and this dominance goes back more than a million years, apparently), so the lost-glove theory espoused by Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist who taught at Hunter College last fall, either needs work or suggests that New York is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ionstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}