ntinued arming for a technological Armageddon is superficially justified on the basis that a position of weakness invites nuclear attack. But the:: certainty of retaliation and national destruction removes the big war from the alternatives which are sanely based on human insti
we justify our capitalistic urge to throw money into the defense sector by justifying it from history as a necessity for our national security. Mainly, its to keep companies like Lockheed and Boeing afloat.
he other hand, for evidence of inconsistent and outmoded emotions, one has only to compare the lavishness with which the American Congress appropriates funds to the Department of Defense for the prosecution of the war in Vietnam with its penny-pinching approach to expenditures for the domestic well-being of the American people.
the US Government can be all cheap and stuff when it comes to the social programs, but when it comes to military expenditure, a trillion dollars is game.
malaise
a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify.
pathological
involving, caused by, or of the nature of a physical or mental disease
things. There isn't
consistently brought up
e. Taxono
OH YEAH that was the word for naming species
discovery. The first comes when you find the thing. The second comes when you find the nam
they have a discrete joy in naming things
date our pet California king snake. All I can say is that I am profoundly grateful that they did
they exanded to now working with many more types of animals
. Butterflies were the slender wedge that opened up something much larger: an earnest attempt to stuff the entire natural world, down to the last kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus,
seems like the narrator is particularly fond of the classification of different species. does this expand beyond butterflies
lepidopteri
a person who studies or collects butterflies and moths
s, reflects a yawning lack of self-confiden
it is interesting that the narrator makes this connection. I am not too sure how a lack of confidence is reflected by collecting objects.
ween collecting stamps and collecting butt
what gives us the right to just kill something because you want to collect it
I cannot remember ever desiring anything so
so the withdrawal was not really organic, but derived from not having access to the butterfly
e, we grew uneasy with the pleasure it gave
this is a very important part of the article. they did not stop killing the butterflies because of the inhumane aspect of it, but because they felt weird drawing so much pleasure from the killing of the butterflies.
transform a trophy hunter into a wild
they felt so guilty about their actions that they decided to admire the butterflies instead of just murdering them
hat F.A.O. S
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d, "Butterfly metamorp
he speaks about butterfly metamorphis almost as if it was a religion
my agnost
a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God.
Being
the word being is capitalized
There are few objects in Nature which raise the mind to a higher degree of admiration, than the Insect creation
the author is almost obsessed with the creation and birth of insects
Being
the word being is capitalized
age, squeamishly omitted the phrase "to feel it struggling be- tween one's fingers" - Wallace made no bones about how crucial the violence was to the thrill
they almost thrive and feel pride of the struggling and pain of the animal. that is pretty screwed up in my book.
ide; to snatch that bit of life from the rich chaos of nature into your own comparatively lackluste
So the narrator was just incredibly selfish
lepidoptery
Lepidopterology, is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies. Someone who studies in this field is a lepidopterist or, archaically, an aurelian.
Shame set in about two yea
addressing the shame that the reader was waiting to settle in
nd abdomen. Caught, killed, relaxed, and spread, the butterfly was laid to rest in a Riker mount, a
This story goes into quite gory and descriptive detail of the killling of such an innocent and beautiful creature?
The murder was less grisly than it would have
this story so far seems to be shifting into the history of ways to kill a butterfly, but we are given literally no context on why the narrator wishes to kill a butterfly or much knowledge about the setting overall.
ed with carbon tetrachloride. "Carbon tet
pro·di·gious | prəˈdijəs | adjective 1 remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree: the stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel.
scrubbed the last traces of strawberry
weirdly high levels of details used when describing facets of the story.
the killin
the author ominously brings up the killing jar, as if it was obvious when picking butterflies that you must killl them afterwards.
a prodigi
pro·di·gious | prəˈdijəs | adjective 1 remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree: the stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel.
or a mourning cloak, or a European cabbage, or a common sulphur, or a red admiral, or a painted lady, or a monarch, or a vic
These examples imply that the setting is somewhere in Europe region maybe due to the specification of European cabbage.
s uncomfortably thick, like that of a tennis racket borrowed from an older player.
The racket is thicker because the older player is more experienced and is therefore implied to have larger hands. This implies that this portion of the story was written from the setting of someone of an age that was not fully developed
just getting started.
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