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wasp

animal

insect

collective noun

being literal

hornet

Australia

spider

is an oddity of nature - a creature with a tiny waist, yet it spends all its time in cake-shops.

Wasp An oddity of nature - a creature with a tiny waist, yet it spends all its time in cake-shops.

is a good emblem for fruitless warfare, for she leaves her stinger in the victim, and dies in the process.

What is it they say? That the wasp leaves her stinger in the victim, and dies in the process? That would be a pretty good emblem for fruitless warfare. p.10

is an airborne cauldron for making jam, hermetically sealed but yielding, the ponderous rear axle careening along in flight.

. . .An airborne cauldron for making jam, hermetically sealed but yielding, the ponderous rear axle careening along in flight. p. 9

is in a perpetual state of crisis, which renders her dangerous.

She seems to exist in a perpetual state of crisis, which renders her dangerous. p.7

is like an electric streetcar: a short train with the engine and the observation car that sizzles like a chemical reaction. And if she touches down, it’s an electrical jolt, a venomous vibration.

Analogy between a wasp and an electric streetcar. Something mute in repose and vocal in action. Also something of a short train, with first and second classes, or rather the engine and the observation car. And of a sizzling trolley. Sizzling like a deep fry, like an (effervescent) chemical reaction. And if she touches down, she stings! Nothing like a mechanical blow: it’s an electrical jolt, a venomous vibration.

is stupid, for if cut in two, it takes her two days to realize that she’s dead. She keeps on flailing about. Even more than before.

A wasp is so stupid – I mean no offense – that if cut in two, she goes on living. It takes her two days to realize that she’s dead. She keeps on flailing about. Even more than before p.11

is the musical form of honey: a major note, sharped, insistent, beginning faintly but not easy to release, clinging, bright, with alternating force and frailty.

The wasp can be called the musical form of honey. That’s to say a major note, sharped, insistent, beginning faintly but not easy to release, clinging, bright, with alternating force and frailty, etc. p. 15

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