Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Intelligence of Flowers (1907)

So, this:
equals this:

Which makes this book, like the Beatles, bigger than Jesus, and its author, Maurice Maeterlinck, pioneer of unwatchable symbolist drama like The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts, fairly worthy of worship. I can't wait to discover what strange miracle animates the souls of bees, ants, and termites, the other vital specimens argued by Maeterlinck to possess "thought without knowledge."

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