Size
A person's personal space (and corresponding comfort zone) is highly variable and difficult to measure accurately. Estimates place it at about 60 centimeters (24 in) on either side, 70 centimeters (28 in) in front and 40 centimeters (16 in) behind for an average westerner.
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Famous quotes containing the word size:
“The obese is ... in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“O hideous little bat, the size of snot,
With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
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—Alex Atkinson, British humor writer. repr. In Present Laughter, ed. Alan Coren (1982)