The mention of Brown and the questions students raised in a postscript exchange of ideas continues to inspire.
In a world of give and take, another mention of our favorite sculpteur of late is one way to think again about the fable mentioned here. Ants are not just the worker drones implied, and grasshoppers are not just the partiers implied. Could it be that the praying mantis has the answer? :

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