Tag Archives: caterpillars
The perturbing mystery
Julia ♦ August 30, 2020 ♦ 12 Comments
“The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter …
The perturbing mystery of metamorphosis
Julia ♦ August 30, 2013 ♦ 21 Comments
“The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter …
Defeat Despair 