https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/06/05/a-guide-to-the-butterflies-book-review-2/ Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:17:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/06/05/a-guide-to-the-butterflies-book-review-2/#comment-452683 Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:17:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24181#comment-452683 Congratulations! You sold a book.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/06/05/a-guide-to-the-butterflies-book-review-2/#comment-452682 Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:15:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24181#comment-452682 Welp, someone broke his brain.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/06/05/a-guide-to-the-butterflies-book-review-2/#comment-452681 Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:45:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24181#comment-452681 If you are trying to win points with Vladimir Nabokov, give it up — Nabokov has gone on to the Great Butterfly Net in the sky. But if you are trying to ensnare us Army brats who spent our childhood south of the border, down Panama way, you are on target. At Fort Gulick, Canal Zone, the butterflies were an absolute delight. We did not know any better, and we made nets out of sticks, gauze and coat-hangers. We were always in seach of the fabled Royal Blue Butterfly, said to be worth many dollars if you caught one. When Linda Ronstadt sings in Spanish, “y las lanchas como mariposas” at Blue Bayou, it is sweet to imagine “the boats like butterflies.” Basho, the great master of haiku, writes, “Rakka eda-ni kaeru; to mireba, kocho kana” –” Leaves returning to the branches, looking at it, oh — butterflies!” In Panama, sometimes a flying river of butterflies would fly past our house for hours on end. Now I chase not butterflies but the overthrow of the Chinese government, which we may yet achieve by means of the Butterfly Effect.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/06/05/a-guide-to-the-butterflies-book-review-2/#comment-452680 Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:45:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24181#comment-452680 Should I let kevin read this one? It’s hard to work out what to do when you’re so in control of what someone else does.

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