archy Coleoptera

    Education is important for all new animals.
     In this case, I mean and exhort to just humans.  Following speaking, the next Important components are reading and writing. When I was a small child I got hold of just about anything I wanted to read. I was exposed to lot of writing and maybe I learned anything.
    My parents used to offer suggestions on the things that I would like to read. My father and mother gave me different opinions. He liked the following "Lesson of the Moth". So do I. It always worries my parents if I ever agree with them. 

 

Don Marquis	The Evening Sun Newspaper New York 1927	This kind was the only news or entertainment in 1927	Metitable - The alley cat	These might have been the ghosts

     Don Marquis was the man who, among other things, was a column writer for the Sun Evening newspaper. He worked in that skyScraping building in New York known for other famous writings, "Today, the paper is best known for the 1897 editorial "Is There a Santa Claus?"". But there were others.
     Do alley cats live in New York city?  Don knew of one he called Mehitable.  The cat provided Don with writing themes when he worked late at his office.  For example, when he was getting coffee he heard something clicking on his typewriter in the other room.  He thought that sound came from ghosts.  Later he corrected that theory with another one even weirder.  Archy the cockroach  - who did all of his writing by jumping up and down on his typewriter keys.
     My father gave me the original book.  Now it is physically falling apart.   Nowadays you can probably find this somewhere on the NET. What can I ask? Computer disks don’t live any longer either.

i was talking to a moth pull this stunt I asked him the other evening he was trying to break into an electric light bulb and fry himself on the wires why do you fellows pull this stunt i asked him because it is the conventional thing for moths or why if that had been an uncovered candle instead of an electric light bulb you would now be a small unsightly cinder have you no sense plenty of it he answered but at times we get tired of using it we get bored with the routine and crave beauty and excitement fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment

and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while so we wad all our life up into one little roll and then we shoot the roll and fry himself on the wires that is what life is for it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty our attitude toward life is come easy go easy we are like human beings used to be before they became too civilized to enjoy themselves and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself archy

Ref: ~1927: archy and mehitabel , wikipedia Don Marquis