At 02:09 PM 6/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
> since we are on the topic of genetics, trnsformation and such, I thought
>I would just offer up my musings on
>Tadpoles - polywogs, tader-pillers as a small neighbour calls them.,
>
>i have a basin of tadpoles on my porch here in cool June Port Moody BC
>and I have been watching them transform, slowly, from amphibious to
>quasi-oxygyn air breathers, from lettucs to bug eaters, my taddies,
>have not yet grown legs, acccording to 'the literature" we should have
>budding armies and legs, shorter tails, definite frog-let features. Are my
>taddies learning disabled, she wodners. I am wondering if i should be
>squatting by the bucket with flashcards, mozart, ginko, PhosphatidylSerine
>etc. to speed up their cognitive processes - fast track their genetic
>development.
>
>I have not yet been able to approx imate the zpd of tdp's - but I have
>sense - in the cool green shadows of this wet cool spring, that they are
>teaching me something about process, and meta-morphosis and writing.
>
>tadpoles and their immanent transformations - ready or not, or when ever
>they are ready.....
>
>Rilke says "yes - the springtimes needed you.
> often a star
> was waiting for you to notice it.
> A wave rolled toward you
> out of the distant past, or as you
> walked
> under an open window, a violin
> yielded itself to your hearing. All this
> was mission.
>
>
>so my taddies are swishing wahle like in their basin, slurrping up
>spirolina, and lettuce, and playing tadpole tag. I think I might have a
>new trope for my disseration here.
>
>kathryn
>> =20
>>
>> June 10 =F3 Imagine taking a
>>drug that offers the promise of allowing you to live to be 180 =F3 without
>>suffering such crippling disabilities as arthritis or fatigue. That may
>>no longer be the stuff of science fiction, thanks to new studies in
>>genetics. While the work has so far only be done in worms, there is
>>every reason to think it may be applicable to humans.
>>
>> Of course, by the time they've tested this on humans to see whether it
>>works, we'll all be dead anyhow. Bruce
>
>
>
>"science does not vanquish mystery" Annie Dillard "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
>
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