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> From: Mac Reynolds <reynoldsm001@hawaii.rr.com>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Subject: About Time
> Date: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:32 PM
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> From a recent Chuck Shepherd "Weird News" column:
>
> A State University of New York professor, in a recent ecology
> journal, expressed confidence that eventually butterflies could be
> genetically altered to permit advertising logos and other designs on
their
> wings.
>
> Whooowee! Will progress never stop? It's about time those lazy,
> good-for-nothing flutterbyes were made to carry their own weight and do
> something useful for a change. By golly, it won't take a taxonomic
> genius to figure them little suckers out now. Can't you just see the
> Leps going into a trading frenzy that will make the Pokemon craze look
> dinky? "Hey Earl, I'll trade you ten Budweiser Swallowtails for one
> Lexus Blue."
>
> VN would be so proud. He'd love this just the way he loved elevator
> music and bullfighting.
>
> Yours for Unabated Science and Consumerism Ad Infinitum!
>
> Mac Reynolds
> From: Mac Reynolds <reynoldsm001@hawaii.rr.com>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Subject: About Time
> Date: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:32 PM
>
> This message was originally submitted by reynoldsm001@HAWAII.RR.COM
to the
> NABOKV-L list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU.
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (24 lines)
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> From a recent Chuck Shepherd "Weird News" column:
>
> A State University of New York professor, in a recent ecology
> journal, expressed confidence that eventually butterflies could be
> genetically altered to permit advertising logos and other designs on
their
> wings.
>
> Whooowee! Will progress never stop? It's about time those lazy,
> good-for-nothing flutterbyes were made to carry their own weight and do
> something useful for a change. By golly, it won't take a taxonomic
> genius to figure them little suckers out now. Can't you just see the
> Leps going into a trading frenzy that will make the Pokemon craze look
> dinky? "Hey Earl, I'll trade you ten Budweiser Swallowtails for one
> Lexus Blue."
>
> VN would be so proud. He'd love this just the way he loved elevator
> music and bullfighting.
>
> Yours for Unabated Science and Consumerism Ad Infinitum!
>
> Mac Reynolds