I fear I'm unable to figure out the additional
"crawling roots and Kallima" question. Do snakes eat butterflies?
What
I saw was simply the mistery of mimetism as we find it in your father's wonder
about how perfectly a butterfly-wing imitated a drop of dew cum refraction of
the light. Its predator would not be such a demanding artist to stimulate such a
creation...
For me the dead-leaf Kallima and roots might and
mimesis raises questions concerning "what force, gravitational or not,
creates the pythagorian (or Platonic?) music of the spheres and what are the
eyes and ears that can hear and see those..." Human eyes have certainly
admired the butterfly dew-drop ( your father's, but he only recreated them in
his writing , he could not paint it on its wings ) - but I have no news of
who heard the dancing spheres nor of who saw what arose from a glass,
darkly.
``S'i' credesse che mia risposta fosse
a persona che mai tornasse al
mondo,
questa fiamma staria sanza più scosse;
ma però che già mai di questo fondo
non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il
vero,
sanza tema d'infamia ti rispondo . . . .''
.
Jansy