Wasn't it "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" when Mohammud Ali engaged in metaphors from the insect world? I used to do what I could for my carriage horses when the flies were pestering them - the great beasts would be distracted and miserable because these tiny creatures were relentless. Real horse flies have a very nasty bite but even ordinary houseflies can be trouble, especially in crowded downtown traffic.
The merely advisory opinions and modest local projects that the NRP neighborhoods bring into being are indeed diminutive compared to the major league movers and shakers in Minneapolis, but I like the metaphor of the ox, as in "dumb as an ...." A precisely placed insect bite sometimes trumps all sorts of planned supervision particularly when the civic beast of burden seems incapable of critical thought. Fred Markus, Horn Terrace, Ward Ten in the Lyndale Neighborhood _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
