I used the word "harrowing" for CIVIL WAR as well. Speaking as a long-ago photojournalist (but never a war guy. Also, you may have seen me write about this and more on Blue Sky), to me this was more about the ethics of distancing yourself from the horror and violence with the barrel of a lens AND with the barrel of a gun.
I always thought the insignia on the wing of a question mark butterfly looked like a semicolon because that's what a question mark in ancient Greek looks like, and the species was named by the sort of Oxford don who would know that sort of thing. But I've just spent half an hour googling to find confirmation of this, and I can't seem to, so maybe it's just me who thinks that way.
Let me know if you find out! I feel like I think this because I read it somewhere, or thought this and then saw it confirmed somewhere, but maybe I just dreamed the confirmation.
Last night I came upon an attribution to Fabricius, but there seem to be several candidates for who precisely that could be. I may ask my neighbor the entomologist how they root their taxonomical classifications, but first I will see how far I can get online with some deeper digging—or better yet, a trip to the natural history library at the university. Thanks for the prompt!
Every post of yours is provocative and inspiring and I feel slightly more, ah, complete, after reading and trying to absorb more of your ideas and observations. Every post is also filled with links and opportunities to expand on those ideas and, with a bit of luck, pursue them toward on a positive path. Coincidentally, while trying to catch up on your links and the other headlines in my in-boxes this AM, I stumbled upon the NYT interview with Brian Eno, which I'm sure you've already read by now, or perhaps you mentioned it in this post and I've somehow overlooked it. At any rate, the interview makes a very good companion piece to any of your Field Notes: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/14/magazine/brian-eno-interview.html?te=1&nl=the-morning&emc=edit_nn_20240414
Thanks, Jesse! I had actually missed that interview, so will look forward to reading it. Also excited about the new documentary film about him and his work come out.
I used the word "harrowing" for CIVIL WAR as well. Speaking as a long-ago photojournalist (but never a war guy. Also, you may have seen me write about this and more on Blue Sky), to me this was more about the ethics of distancing yourself from the horror and violence with the barrel of a lens AND with the barrel of a gun.
Thanks, Derryl—that makes sense, and I shall go find your Bluesy threads on the topic.
I always thought the insignia on the wing of a question mark butterfly looked like a semicolon because that's what a question mark in ancient Greek looks like, and the species was named by the sort of Oxford don who would know that sort of thing. But I've just spent half an hour googling to find confirmation of this, and I can't seem to, so maybe it's just me who thinks that way.
Now you have me looking up the student of Linnaeus who named it (if I got it right). Your theory makes a lot of sense to me!
Let me know if you find out! I feel like I think this because I read it somewhere, or thought this and then saw it confirmed somewhere, but maybe I just dreamed the confirmation.
Last night I came upon an attribution to Fabricius, but there seem to be several candidates for who precisely that could be. I may ask my neighbor the entomologist how they root their taxonomical classifications, but first I will see how far I can get online with some deeper digging—or better yet, a trip to the natural history library at the university. Thanks for the prompt!
Every post of yours is provocative and inspiring and I feel slightly more, ah, complete, after reading and trying to absorb more of your ideas and observations. Every post is also filled with links and opportunities to expand on those ideas and, with a bit of luck, pursue them toward on a positive path. Coincidentally, while trying to catch up on your links and the other headlines in my in-boxes this AM, I stumbled upon the NYT interview with Brian Eno, which I'm sure you've already read by now, or perhaps you mentioned it in this post and I've somehow overlooked it. At any rate, the interview makes a very good companion piece to any of your Field Notes: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/14/magazine/brian-eno-interview.html?te=1&nl=the-morning&emc=edit_nn_20240414
Thanks, Jesse! I had actually missed that interview, so will look forward to reading it. Also excited about the new documentary film about him and his work come out.