Breakfast with Apheta

Jeff Wilson · 23 Jul 2008, 13:55 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:55:55 -0500
Subject: (urth) Breakfast with Apheta
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John Watkins wrote:
> I took is as explicitly not a Eucharist.  Cake contrasts with bread,
> water contrasts with wine, God only knows what the "milky fluid" was.

Being on an island, perhaps it was coconut milk?

Found on the internet:
> Larvae are short, broad, and sluglike. Some species secrete honeydew,
> a sweet by-product of digestion that attracts ants. The ants stroke,
> or ?milk,? the larva with their legs to stimulate honeydew secretion.
> The fragile adults of most blue species have brilliant blue wing
> surfaces, generally much darker in the females than in the males.


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