Anything which doesn’t have human features must be crushed I guess.
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Naturally his first thought was to crush it with his cane! We need more heroes like him protecting us from the plague of vicious, venomous butterflies that might otherwise result.
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Looks like me old mate Neil. He’s going up in the world.
An aged farmer was walking by the river, when he saw a fish flapping and gasping for breath on the ground. The fish said to the man, “Please peasant, put me back in the water, and I will grant you one or more wishes”. The man replied, “DON’T CALL ME A FUCKING PEASANT”, and crushed the fish to death with his cane.
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Of course, that caterpillar is simply irresistible.
Repeating for SMH-ness at our species:
“My first thought was to crush it with my cane.”
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I thought that it probably turned into a death-head hawk moth, but nope that caterpillar doesn’t look anything like this.
So like a human to see a face in everything…
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Agreed, Poe, no question.
Skull, jackolantern, and ironman with a pompadour.
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I asked Daniel at WhatsThatBug. Tussock Caterpillars. The one with a face may be among their 21 pages of Tussock which he may not have time to search through: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?s=Tussock
“Never mind,” said he at length, “this will answer”; and he drew from his waistcoat pocket a scrap of what I took to be very dirty foolscap, and made upon it a rough drawing with the pen. While he did this, I retained my seat by the fire, for I was still chilly. When the design was complete, he handed it to me without rising. . . . I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted.
“Well!” I said, after contemplating it for some minutes, “this is a strange scarabaeus, I must confess: new to me: never saw anything like it before --unless it was a skull, or a death’s-head --which it more nearly resembles than anything else that has come under my observation.”
“A death’s-head!” echoed Legrand --“Oh --yes --well, it has something of that appearance upon paper, no doubt. The two upper black spots look like eyes, eh? and the longer one at the bottom like a mouth --and then the shape of the whole is oval.”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Gold Bug” (1843)
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What, am I the first person in the thread to mention the movie Mimic?
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