>>Victor, wondering what the life span of a wasp is as the same one has
been
passively crawling around the window for two days now<<

A sociologist writes:
Don't know about wasps, or WASPS, but George Jackson in his Soledad
Letters makes a nice point. He mentions the life span of the May fly
(Ephemera) as being 4 hours. He imagines a May fly being born in the
middle of the night and realises that there is no way to explain the
concept of day and night to this insect which will die before the sun
comes up. He was making a point about opposed, immovable political
factions if I remember correctly. This insect derives it's name from the
adjective 'ephemeral'.

mike in barcelona, where the summer holidays are ephemeral

NP. Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes

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