The author uses sensory details in this excerpt to create images of

Why does lewis thomas express concern about what we would say to beings from another planet

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

The author or the odyssey, an epic written in 700 b. c.,