12-08-2016, 11:54 AM
[bThis is wonderful.
A minute’s a day for mosquitos, [b]Being plural this could refer to the species as a whole (phylogeny), whereas the other three are singular (hence ontogeny). Maybe 'a mosquito'? If the point is that time is relative, this is so only from the perspective of the human experience of time, of which there are many but here seems to be tied roughly to abstract time and the individual lifespan (dog is obvious; I haven't done the math for a mosquito, but a quick google search puts your calculus in the ballpark, though there is 5-6 fold gender difference)--something that the log nicely accentuates with its wink of shadenfreude at the otherwise ineluctable fate to which living things are bound (having lost its life in a 'blink', it's in a position to give us a "wink").
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A minute’s a day for mosquitos, [b]Being plural this could refer to the species as a whole (phylogeny), whereas the other three are singular (hence ontogeny). Maybe 'a mosquito'? If the point is that time is relative, this is so only from the perspective of the human experience of time, of which there are many but here seems to be tied roughly to abstract time and the individual lifespan (dog is obvious; I haven't done the math for a mosquito, but a quick google search puts your calculus in the ballpark, though there is 5-6 fold gender difference)--something that the log nicely accentuates with its wink of shadenfreude at the otherwise ineluctable fate to which living things are bound (having lost its life in a 'blink', it's in a position to give us a "wink").
Thanks for posting!