January 9, 2006- My name is Bruce Liles and I am writing from southern Indiana about things that have happened here.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Another Bug
I'm tellin' ya.
They are BIG down here.
1 comment:
Anonymous
said...
I suspect a relation between the local group tap dancing behavior you have previously documented and the abundance of oversized insects in & around greater Birdseye.
If so , what a charming happenstance ! What may have started back in the day as an inexpensive & effective way to control populations of large bugs...has evolved into a pleasurable social activity in it's own right !
Contemporary clippity- clogging in Birdseye could be the direct lineal dance descendant of an ancient Terpsichorean pest squashing ritual . Participants would have carefully disguised themselves as beetles , caterpillars, earwigs, centipedes, & the like . Then , under the watchful direction of shamanic choreographers, the "bug-dancers" would work themselves into a sustained trance of frenzied movement while at the same time dispatching their " little brothers " into the next life by literally treading upon them underfoot.
1 comment:
I suspect a relation between the local group tap dancing behavior you have previously documented and the abundance of oversized insects in & around greater Birdseye.
If so , what a charming happenstance ! What may have started back in the day as an inexpensive & effective way to control populations of large bugs...has evolved into a pleasurable social activity in it's own right !
Contemporary clippity- clogging in Birdseye could be the direct lineal dance descendant of an ancient Terpsichorean pest squashing ritual . Participants would have carefully disguised themselves as beetles , caterpillars, earwigs, centipedes, & the like . Then , under the watchful direction of shamanic choreographers, the "bug-dancers" would work themselves into a sustained trance of frenzied movement while at the same time dispatching their " little brothers " into the next life by literally treading upon them underfoot.
- an educated guesser in Academe.
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