Back to AtD Beetles

[Markekohut]

I try now---but obviously I didn't with this morning's post because I thought I remembered  it as Darwin but goes to show--to check and verify only within Google Books! Rather than the web. 

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On Apr 10, 2013, at 11:42 AM, "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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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> Of Markekohut
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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
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Markekohut
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:55 AM
>> To: pynchon -l
>> Subject: Back to AtD Beetles
>> 
>> 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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