It wasn't without some work that a cronopio figured out how to make a life-thermometer. Something like a cross between a regular thermometer and a topometer, a filing cabinet and a CV.
To give you an example, the cronopio invited to his home a fama, an esperanza, and a professor of languages. Applying his discoveries to these guests, he established that the fama was infra-life, the esperanza was para-life, and the professor inter-life. As for the cronopio himself, he considered himself ever so slightly super-life, although more for the poetry of the thing than because it was true.
At lunchtime, the cronopio enjoyed the discourse of his companions, because each of them thought they were talking about the same thing, but they weren't. The inter-life talked of abstractions such as spirit and conscience, which the para-life listened to like someone who is listening to the rain -- a delicate sort of practice. Of course, the infra-life constantly asked for more cheese, and the super-life carved the roast chicken in 42 separate movements (the Stanley Fitzsimmons method). After dessert was served, they all bade each other good-bye and went about their business, and nothing remained on the table but loose little pieces of death.
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