5 august 2010* * * bhikku is off to Malaysian Borneo to see the giant earthworms, your men the orangutangs, and maybe this kind of thing: The beauty and brilliancy of this insect are indescribable, and none but a naturalist can understand the intense excitement I experienced when I at length captured it. On taking it out of my net and opening the glorious wings, my heart began to beat violently, the blood rushed to my head, and I felt much more like fainting than I have done when in apprehension of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced by what will appear to most people a very inadequate cause.
- Alfred Russell Wallace, The Malay Archipelago See you later on * * *
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