from realizing that the glory of his social climb lay in its progression rather than in its fulfillment. To Built A Fire Part I ``To Build a Fire'' begins at nine o'clock on a winter morning as an unnamed man travels across the Yukon Territory in Northwestern Canada. The man is a chechaquo (cheechako), a Chinook jargon word meaning ``newcomer.'' This is the man's first winter in the Yukon, but because he is ``without imagination'' and thus unaccustomed to thinking about life and death, he is not afraid of the cold, which he estimates at fifty degrees below zero. He is on his way to join the rest of his companions at an old mining camp on a distant fork of Henderson Creek, and he estimates his arrival time will be six o'clock in the evening. The man is traveling on foot; all he has by way of supplies is his lunch. It is not long before he realizes that the temperature is colder than fifty below, but this fact does not yet worry him. Part II
discovers his softer side and the habitually soft psychiatrist played by Billy Crystal is forced to act like a tough guy to survive. 326 POLARITY 1 0 . G O I N G TO EXTREMES Experimenting with any polarized system involves going to the extremes. Comedy or tragedy may result as people who have habitually leaned to one side of a polarity not only experiment with the unaccustomed opposite quality, but take it to the limit. Those who have been shy take new-found confidence too far, becoming obnoxious instead of suave or self-assured. T h e y overcompensate, missing the point of balance. T h e y may then retreat to the opposite extreme of sullenness or some other exagger ated form of their original behavior. Eventually, through a series of such pendulum swings they may learn a new way to behave, somewhere in the middle ground.
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