Are Butterflies Moths?

[Anne Kilmer]

Hank & Priscilla Brodkin wrote:
> 
> Patrick Foley wrote:
> >
> > Hank and Priscilla,
> >
> > I was joking about the cladistic tendency to enforce branch inclusions (and I
> > recently noticed that Jesse Colin Young is touring). I am all in favor of useful
> > argument.
> >
> > Patrick Foley
> > patfoley at csus.edu
> >
> 
> Patrick -
> I had just gotten back from a day in Tucson.  The heat must have gotten
> to me ;-)
> While I was there I read an article in Time Magazine.  Apparently they
> now "know" how the universe will end ("not with a bang, but with a
> whimper").  They arrived at this decision just because of argumentative
> folk who strongly disagreed with each other - which immediately reminded
> me of the give and take on Leps-L.
> Not that any great discoveries will be made, nor probably will any minds
> be changed - but who knows?
> Our "second Spring" has arrived in southeastern Arizona.  It should be a
> good one for those of you who like insects.
> Cheers!
> 
> --
>                      Hank & Priscilla Brodkin
>                   Carr Canyon, Cochise County, AZ

Douglas Adams has adequately described the end of the universe; I see no
reason for further speculation. He agrees with Eliot, of course.
He also became a confirmed atheist, but is now where savage indignation
will no longer wound him. And, I hope, received an adequate apology for
the inconvenience.
No butterflies attended the chamber music festival in Cork except a few
whites, probably Pieris brassicae but who knows. They and a couple of
little girls were dancing in the sunlight in the flower garden while I
was supposed to be paying attention to a Master Class taught by Valentin
Borodin, I think his name was. Exquisite. 
Anne Kilmer
Mayo, Ireland
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