как умирают пчелы
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avvaИз знаменитого руководства американского пчеловода Лангстрота, середина 19-го века:
Notched and ragged wings, instead of gray hairs and wrinkled faces, are the signs of old age in the bee, and indicate that its season of toil will soon be over. They appear to die rather suddenly, and often spend their last days, and sometimes even their last hours, in useful labors. Place yourself before a hive, and see the indefatigable energy of these aged veterans, toiling along with their heavy burdens, side by side with their more youthful compeers, and then say if you can, that you have done work enough, and that you will give yourself up to slothful indulgence, while the ability for useful labor still remains. Let the cheerful hum of their industrious old age inspire you with better resolutions, and teach you how much nobler it is to meet death in the path of duty, striving still, as you "have opportunity," to "do good unto all men."Так тогда писали.
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Date: 2012-11-22 11:03 am (UTC)"Do you!" said Mr Boffin.
"I object on principle," said Eugene, "as a biped-"
"As a what?" asked Mr Boffin.
"As a two-footed creature - I object on principle, as a two-footed creature, to being constantly referred to insects and four-footed creatures. I object to being required to model my proceedings according to the proceedings of the bee, or the dog, or the spider, or the camel. I fully admit that the camel, for instance, is an excessively temperate person; but he has several stomachs to entertain himself with, and I have only one. Besides, I am not fitted up with a convenient cool cellar to keep my drink in."
"But I said, you know," urged Mr Boffin, rather at a loss for an answer, "the bee."
"Exactly. And may I represent to you that its injudicious to say the bee? For the whole case is assumed. Conceding for a moment that there is any analogy between a bee, and a man in a shirt and pantaloons (which I deny), and that it is settled that the man is to learn from the bee (which I also deny), the question still remains, what is he to learn? To imitate? Or to avoid? When your friends the bees worry themselves to that highly fluttered extent about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement, are we men to learn the greatness of Tuft-hunting, or the littleness of the Court Circular? I am not clear, Mr Boffin, but that the hive may be satirical."
"At all events, they work," said Mr Boffin.
"Ye-es," returned Eugene, disparagingly, "they work; but dont you think they overdo it? They work so much more than they need ; they make so much more than they can eat ; they are so incessantly boring and buzzing at their one idea till Death comes upon them ; that dont you think they overdo it? And are human labourers to have no holidays, because of the bees? And am I never to have change of air, because the bees dont? Mr Boffin, I think honey excellent at breakfast; but, regarded in the light of my conventional schoolmaster and moralist, I protest against the tyrannical humbug of your friend the bee. With the highest respect for you."
"Thankee," said Mr Boffin. "Morning, morning!" But, the worthy Mr Boffin jogged away with a comfortless impression he could have dispensed with, that there was a deal of unsatisfactoriness in the world.
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Date: 2012-11-22 02:40 pm (UTC)Flesch Reading Ease 48.6
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