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[Monte Davis]

The web is just carrying on a fine old journalistic tradition, in which
everything quotable was said by Lincoln, Twain, Oscar Wilde or Dorothy
Parker. 

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Thank you....
The way quotes are misattributed on the  web is another scandalous
happening.

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On Apr 10, 2013, at 10:38 AM, "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> "inordinate fondness" was J.B.S. Haldane
> 
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> Pp 980-981. Frank discovers the giant luminous beetles known as 
> cucuji. They have names, Lovingly given them by the women who gathered and
tamed them.
> 
> Wonderful internal metaphor for the natural, Darwinian world? I say this
> because of his famous quote:     The Divine Must have an inordinate
fondness
> for beetles--he made so many of them"
> I found another wherein Darwin says he felt so good when he learned of 
> new rare beetles:
> " like an old war horse at the sound of a trumpet" 
> 
> Over 100 new species just discovered. 
> 
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