Smith portrays his love for little things with the words he uses to describe them. "She is a diamond chip." (259) "Living dazzle." (260) "Perched like birds and unfolding like flowers." (261) Also, just the mere fact that Smith has a hard time explaining his love for the animacules and putting it into words reveals his absolute passion for these little creatures.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Mark Smith's "Animacules and Other Little Subjects"
I love little things. Kitties, cell phones, and not to mention those little animal shaped rubber bands that everybody is wearing now (I currently have two cows, an elephant, a hedgehog, a dolphin, and a lion). Smith's undying love for his favorite little creatures doesn't surprise me. He's obsessed with them kind of like how I'm obsessed with cats. I can't stand being away from my two at home while I'm at school so I LOVE that Hofstra has cats on campus... and if I said I haven't been to the pet store just to see the kitties (and puppies) I would for sure be lying.
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I like how you pointed out his personification for the animalcules. I noticed this too, and accounted it for his love of all things living. It really emphasized his point that life is brilliant and ever-present. Not to mention the same adjectives we use for many things in our lives can be used to describe small protozoans. It's interesting to see what other people think is exciting.
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ReplyDeleteI too agree about the love of the little things. I happen to love mice, which is funny since you love cats. I have always found them to be so tiny and fragile, but yet they are amazingly smart and very adaptive for a litle animal. Their tiny pink noses are just too cute and I like they way they wiggle them, well it just makes me smile. Smith's "cats, & mice" are just that much smaller but the interest and amazement he finds observing them is not any smaller then the animals that we love. Very cool.
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