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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (101084)	4/12/2005 9:16:37 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

EPHEMERA Snowflakes So lovely They should last forever Drifting down Casting shadows Under the lamppost A young tongue Lies in wait I long to see her catch Already gone Others come, eagerly She has time But not enough. I'd rather think of death in these terms. My terms.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (101084)	4/13/2005 12:00:21 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

I found it ultimately a very life affirming book. Sure, it's different kinds of life, but still, in the big picture, there's a lot more life out there than the merely human. As a biologist by training, I've always been fascinated by the parade of creatures on the planet- and it's nice to see them figure prominently in a novel, in a very non- anthropomorphized way. I love that life goes on, and on- in the midst of death we are in life- sure it's not human life, but it's Life. :-) The murder is dark, but I found the other aspects of the novel put the human drama on a smaller scale- so tiny creatures made the big humans seem less important. If that makes sense. I found it pleasurably ironic.