Our Queen, Who Art In Heaven, Times Three
I've been told that the triangle is not, in fact, my fave shape. True, its not. Ive been told its the Hexagram. Because I keep bees.
Hmm. Well- the hexagram, six sides, is just two three sided triangles. So- same thing.
I was thinking I like the square better- but damn it- that's two triangles too.
I've been studying- can I say intently if its only for about a half hour?- the bee thorax. I have this book I bought on Ebay by Snodgrass, who wrote a number of books on insect thoraxes, it turns out, and, is referred to in Comstock;s 1931 Entomology, as an expert on thoraxes.
Do not confuse this with the poet Snodgrass, who wrote Heart's Needle (I have a first edition!), which is the poem that Ann Sexton read which cause her to be a poet (in Donald Halls anthology- Ann did NOT have a first edition), AND Snodgrass wrote this wonderful addendum about the genesis of this poem, AND he wrote a poem about the mystery of moths. But different fellow than the entomologist.
Unfortunately for me, Snodgrass was not an expert in any 3D animation software, like Sketchup.
I use SU for architecture (being an architect) and thought- well, I can look at the Snodgrass engravings, and imagine it in 3D, and make model. How cool would that be?
It turns out that its way hard- and way subtle and even in the dang thorax, there are levels and levels of tiny detail that i can't quite Grok . at all. I can't spin a bee thorax in my head.
Grok is Robert Henlien. A word I use when I mean something like understanding in a profounder way. I think the guy in that book gets crucified.
A bee lives in a hexagram. Lots of three in her life. There are three variations- a worker, drone, queen. It has - as do all insects - three body parts, the head, thorax, and abdomen. and the thorax. for one, is divided into three parts, each supporting a leg. Its also divided into three vertically, as there is a top plate (scleura), side plate (pleura), and bottom plate (umm. I forget).
Has three ocelli (non- compound eyes).
Of course its bilaterally symmetrical too- like almost everything alive that has more than two cells and doesn't live in a pond,, except Echinoderms (5 sides) (I made that up, probably other animals too), (ok, Jelly fish come to mind) so it has two eyes, two antennae, and two sets of (three) legs. Like the number two and number three intersecting.
We (you and I) just have the number two intersecting the number two. How boring.
As everyone knows (do I even have to say this?) the gay Sci Fi writer Arthur C. Clark (Arthur should have been the first hint), who lived in Sri Lanka (oh you know, Ceylon), which is oddly enough the place that Madame Blavatsky and her stooge- Colonel someone (have his book, but cant recall his name) "discovered" Buddhism- and not just any strain, but one i have come to know and love, with many other journeying Westerners- Theravadan Budddhism (the Buddhism of Discipline, damn it!). Anyway- as everyone knows- AC Clark (embarrassingly, "C" also stands for Clark, so his name was Arthur Clark Clark) (I made that up), wrote Rendevous With Rama, which had this great ending. You know it, do I have to say? That Ramans always come in Threes?
In any case. Insect have their own Suborder, the Hexasomethings. Unlike Spiders, who have TWO body parts (how do they get by?) , and EIGHT legs, all two divisable, more akin to us-number wise). And so, bees, insects, being three oriented, they elevate themselves, beyond our ken. Father, son, holy Ghost. Queen, Worker, Drone. That sort of thing- hard to figure.
Hmm. Well- the hexagram, six sides, is just two three sided triangles. So- same thing.
I was thinking I like the square better- but damn it- that's two triangles too.
I've been studying- can I say intently if its only for about a half hour?- the bee thorax. I have this book I bought on Ebay by Snodgrass, who wrote a number of books on insect thoraxes, it turns out, and, is referred to in Comstock;s 1931 Entomology, as an expert on thoraxes.
Do not confuse this with the poet Snodgrass, who wrote Heart's Needle (I have a first edition!), which is the poem that Ann Sexton read which cause her to be a poet (in Donald Halls anthology- Ann did NOT have a first edition), AND Snodgrass wrote this wonderful addendum about the genesis of this poem, AND he wrote a poem about the mystery of moths. But different fellow than the entomologist.
Unfortunately for me, Snodgrass was not an expert in any 3D animation software, like Sketchup.
I use SU for architecture (being an architect) and thought- well, I can look at the Snodgrass engravings, and imagine it in 3D, and make model. How cool would that be?
It turns out that its way hard- and way subtle and even in the dang thorax, there are levels and levels of tiny detail that i can't quite Grok . at all. I can't spin a bee thorax in my head.
Grok is Robert Henlien. A word I use when I mean something like understanding in a profounder way. I think the guy in that book gets crucified.
A bee lives in a hexagram. Lots of three in her life. There are three variations- a worker, drone, queen. It has - as do all insects - three body parts, the head, thorax, and abdomen. and the thorax. for one, is divided into three parts, each supporting a leg. Its also divided into three vertically, as there is a top plate (scleura), side plate (pleura), and bottom plate (umm. I forget).
Has three ocelli (non- compound eyes).
Of course its bilaterally symmetrical too- like almost everything alive that has more than two cells and doesn't live in a pond,, except Echinoderms (5 sides) (I made that up, probably other animals too), (ok, Jelly fish come to mind) so it has two eyes, two antennae, and two sets of (three) legs. Like the number two and number three intersecting.
We (you and I) just have the number two intersecting the number two. How boring.
As everyone knows (do I even have to say this?) the gay Sci Fi writer Arthur C. Clark (Arthur should have been the first hint), who lived in Sri Lanka (oh you know, Ceylon), which is oddly enough the place that Madame Blavatsky and her stooge- Colonel someone (have his book, but cant recall his name) "discovered" Buddhism- and not just any strain, but one i have come to know and love, with many other journeying Westerners- Theravadan Budddhism (the Buddhism of Discipline, damn it!). Anyway- as everyone knows- AC Clark (embarrassingly, "C" also stands for Clark, so his name was Arthur Clark Clark) (I made that up), wrote Rendevous With Rama, which had this great ending. You know it, do I have to say? That Ramans always come in Threes?
In any case. Insect have their own Suborder, the Hexasomethings. Unlike Spiders, who have TWO body parts (how do they get by?) , and EIGHT legs, all two divisable, more akin to us-number wise). And so, bees, insects, being three oriented, they elevate themselves, beyond our ken. Father, son, holy Ghost. Queen, Worker, Drone. That sort of thing- hard to figure.
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