At lunchtime, I strolled to the shop for some honey-roasted peanuts and diet Coke. Checking out, I noticed these little green worms on my suit. They are the current bane of my existence, besides mosquitos and pesky butterflies. Everywhere you go in the neighborhood, they are hanging from the trees by little threads like torpid little members of a modern French circus. The only thing that makes them more charming than maggots is that they don’t wiggle as much, and aren’t actually maggots.
What is it with you and butterflies? They’re beautiful creatures, how can you use the word “plague” and “butterfly” in the same sentence?
What is it with you and butterflies? They’re beautiful creatures, how can you use the word “plague” and “butterfly” in the same sentence?
Oops.
[delurk]
i’m with LB, and with the ancient greeks, who used the same word, *psyche* for both “butterfly” and “soul”.
[lurk]
LB – it is a well-known fact that people who are hung-up on butterflies are unhappy with thier lives and wish for a metamorphosis of their own.
miguel- this is your blog and you can say whatever you want. if someone doesn’t like it, tell them to take a hike. blog on!
“blight” maybe?
Admit it people, what’s a catterpiler but a worm with legs, and what’s a butterfly but a catterpiler with wings? It’s about time someone said that. You go, Mig.
I h a t e the little worms. My grandmother’s house, now occupied by my aunt and cousins, is surrounded by gorgeous oak trees which house similar wormies. They descend, each summer, from their little webby trapezes and do little flips right into your hair as you pass underneath. They’re pretty good at it. Then they wiggle, right there in your hair, or on your face. Shudder.
at first you’re standing there thinking, “gosh, it feels almost like worms are wiggling in my hair!” and then you find the first one, and after that, all day you have the wiggly worm feeling, even after you get rid of them, so you’re like sitting there on the bus, checking yourself, surreptitiously, for worms.
I came to this site via a google search for butterfly window stickers and I’m shocked that anyone can call a butterfly a worm! They’re beautiful creatures. How someone can dwell on ugliness like this makes me sad more than anything.
butterfly-hater!
Geez LB, you’re such a bug lover, why don’t you gather them all up in your house and live with them in perfect harmony?
Funny that such a bug hater would BE a bug in his own comic strip. ;)
now, now, don’t go sticking labels on me. i wouldn’t call myself a bug-hater. at the same time, many people take a naive view of butterflies as some harmless, pretty creatures while they are, in fact, quite territorial and aggressive, buzzing us when we come out into our backyard, and fucking on our flowers.
eh, i mean, the *butterflies* are fuckign on our flowers, not us.