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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.146.233 |
Findings have just been announced today that moths and butterflies surf the wind; http://news.discovery.com/animals/migrating-insects-butterflies.html They instinctively or deliberately discover fast moving winds or thermals in the upper atmosphere that enable them to migrate vast distances in a short space of time. One can imagine them surging along - enfolded together or separately? - in an unconscious nirvana or fully conscious? - ?? like writers who send their synchronised shards or mites into visionary tides of random truth and fiction within the vast migratory creativity of art. Some tides self-created others created for them. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.146.233 |
Perhaps these phenomena should be called 'skights'?  | ||
| Nathaniel Tapley (Natt) Username: Natt Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 89.240.59.35 |
In Life On Earth, David Attenborough tell of a species of flatworm that can be taught to 'run' mazes. If you then grind a flatworm that has been taught up, and feed it to one that hasn't, the one that hasn't will suddenly know how to complete the maze. He doesn't tell us anything else about them, and those flatworms have fascinated me ever since... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.146.233 |
That 'flatworm' phenomenon would suggest that human cannibalism may be worth taking up. And Sin-eating takes on a new perspective. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.181.73 |
"Straw in the wind straw in the wind straw in the wind..." | ||
| Nathaniel Tapley (Natt) Username: Natt Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 89.240.59.35 |
It lends a nice extra frisson to Reggie Oliver's Mrs Midnight from TBBOH5... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.146.233 |
I'll have to read that. I hear there is to be a 'complete' Reggie Oliver from Centipede Press. |