The heterœcious character of the Atemeles, which are compelled twice during their life time to change their normal hosts, once in the spring when they migrate for reproductive purposes from Myrmica to Formica, to have their larva reared by the latter, and once in the summer or autumn, when they migrate from Formica to Myrmica for the purpose of hibernating, enables us to explain the greater active perfection of their symphily, their greater initiative towards the ants, and the close imitation of their behavior.
Ernie Yost: We were in a forty knot gale. The ship was like a roller coaster, up one wave, down the next, and me and Wade were leaning over the railing puking, like we had spent the weekend liberty at the slop shoot.
In her right hand a rod of peace shee bore,
About the which two serpents weren wound;
Entrayled mutually in lovely lore,
And by the tailes together firmely bound […]
We can, of course, simply drift into the future, in which case where we end up will be the result of inertia buffeted by ad hocery and circumstance.
