I feel like side-stepping the quest for truth, for the moment, and instead marvel at the miracle of fleas. Robert Hooke's entire Micrographia is online at the Project Gutenberg. I wonder whether the discussion tomorrow, in what will be our final session, can harness the irksome bite of the flea? As Cornelia Hesse-Honegger said, a tranquilised drosophila doesn't run away but spreads its relaxed gut about too much; it gets in the way. Far better to pitch your patience against it while it is scuttling about under the microscope.
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Now THAT'S a metaphor! Like a colourless green idea that sleeps furiously.
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