Swany’s Whey

Quoted in Montaigne, Of Sorrow: “He who can say how he burns with love, has little fire.” —Petrarca, Sonetto 137.”

Wikipedia: Osedax is a genus of deep-sea siboglinid polychaetes, commonly called zombie or bone-eating worms, first discovered in Monterey Bay, California, in February 2002. The worms were found living in a decaying gray whale in the Monterey Canyon, at a depth of 2,800 m using the submarine ROV Tiburon. They have no stomachs or mouths [...]

osedax.com: “Scientists studying a whale carcass in Monterey Canyon recently announced the discovery of two new species of unique worms that feed on the bones of dead whales. In the July 30 issue of Science, the researchers describe these worms, whose bodies and feeding strategies differ from those of any other known animal. The worms [...]

Science | Editors’ Choice : 09 January 2009; 323 (5911): Osedax is a recently discovered annelid worm that, with a little help from endosymbiotic bacteria called Oceanospirillales, feeds on the bones of whales. However, whale carcasses are rare, and the diversity of Osedax species astonishing, so how these organisms persist and scatter is a conundrum. [...]

Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. [ Luke 12:27 ]

Berg died in Vienna, on Christmas Eve 1935, apparently from blood poisoning caused by an insect bite. He was 50 years old. [ Wikipedia ]

First of all, though they had eyes to see, they saw to no avail; they had ears, but they did not understand; but, just as shapes in dreams, throughout their length of days, without purpose they wrought all things in confusion. They had neither knowledge of houses built of bricks and turned to face the [...]

13: Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an [...]