Sunday, 1 August 2021

The Minor Matter of the Dancing Midges.

I just looked out of my living room window and saw a host of midges dancing frantically in the light of the westering sun. I wondered, as I always do when greeted with such a sight, whether the midges I can see are the only midges in that location, or whether there are countless other midges – either dancing or not – which I can’t see simply because they’re not being caught in a shaft of sunlight. In other words, do midges only dance when the sun is shining on them?
 
Maybe someone who knows about midges and their mindset might enlighten me. This is the kind of thing which matters to me when I can put aside issues like health problems and the parlous state of the human condition for a moment.

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