Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu ([128.111.125.82]) by mtapop4.verizon.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010529232738.EKFX322772.mtapop4.verizon.net@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu> for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 18:27:38 -0500 Received: from ucsbuxa (listserv.ucsb.edu [128.111.125.159]) by ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01861 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gpvissmtpgw02.mcleodusa.net (gpvissmtpgw02.splitrock.net [63.254.138.37]) by ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA01857 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2555 invoked from network); 29 May 2001 23:27:44 -0000 Received: from 207-191-201-192.cpe.ats.mcleodusa.net (HELO mcleodusa.net) (207.191.201.192) by gpvissmtpgw.splitrock.net with SMTP; 29 May 2001 23:27:44 -0000 Message-ID: <3B143A36.EC773598@mcleodusa.net> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:09:26 -0500 From: Darryl Schade X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum Subject: #18 & Butterflies Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 This message was originally submitted by schadedarryl@MCLEODUSA.NET to the NABOKV-L list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (10 lines) ------------------ I don't think the Wakashima posting answers my ? My ? is whether or not there is some species of moth or butterfly in the wild which possesses the coloration/ patterns in some way, perhaps only vaguely, produced by the 2 different solutions. As I stated, it may be only wishful thinking, but again it would not suprise me if VN had a species in mind which his problem mimics if you look at as coloration and pattern and blur the specific pieces, just as Wakashima suggests you do to see the butterfly shape. Darryl