One Day In The Garden, page 7

One Day In The Garden, page 7, originally uploaded by Bromirski.

One day in the garden

drawn by the scent of death, a fly came upon a murdered caterpillar.

A cry of alarm rang throughout the garden.

All of the bugs gathered to ponder the crime and to cast blame and to wonder... who could have done such a horrible thing? Then they ate the body.

The gardener could not help but notice so many bugs gathered together in his garden and took a moment to watch.

The gardener, being a Man, and Man being the sum total of his choices (made of hundreds of bits and pieces each responding to and acting on separate impulses) - was not a bit surprsied when one of his most impulsive bits chose to abandon him.

The piece-of-the-man among the bugs suggested an inquiry into the death of the caterpillar. Declaring that he alone among the bugs was self-aware, could read and write, and had an opposable thumb, the piece-of-the-man nominated himself judge. being the only one present who could count, the piece-of-the-man also seconded and thirded his nomination to no objections.

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