Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 23:41:38 -0800
Subject: Re: mitravaruna


Ariosto, have you read Orlando Fuiroso? by Ariosto?

Your namesake was a good poet. I really am interested in what is contained
in your message. I am presently working on a post graduate thesis -to be
completed shortly I hope - on forest entomology [a weevil called Pissodes
strobi] and I want to include a discussion on environemtal ethics. So I
would like to know more about this entomological representation and
intuition you mention below. The insect evolves by stages, sort of
metamorphoses that can last years in a quiescent stage, in hibernaculum, and
then burst forth in the spring or wet season. So do you think that it would
be best to conserve forests and forest health by ensuring in the future that
entomological mindness is fostered in the humanities, and the arts, not only
in the applied sciences? To me it is critical to have nature represented in
arts and humanities at all times so that the collective imagination is kept
primed in terms of the motif of the imago, the crysalis, and the
hibernaculum by keeping nature as a holistic object, an impression
surrounding humanity, even in cities full of diversity and abundance? Is not
the arts function to keep the imagination alive with wonderful imaged that
are ultimately reduced to nature? And what is the good here? Is this good
for the soul and the cosmos? 

I like insects especially mayflies, ladybugs, dragonflies, tropical
butterflies, moths, and ants. I used to keep bees.


Chao,,

John 

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