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A caterpillar
this deep in autumn
still not a butterfly

-Matsuo Basho

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  1. complicateurApril 19, 2009 at 6:30 PM

    Less a caterpillar, more a Bombyx Mori.

    Happy Birthday!

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  2. divyashriApril 19, 2009 at 11:27 PM

    Maybe it has transformed!
    The butterfly spreads its newly found freedom and flies away.. :-)

    Happppy Birthday, Prabhu. :-) :-)
    Here's wishing you an awesome year ahead, and here's hoping that all your dreams come true! :-) Cheers!

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  3. The BuddhaApril 20, 2009 at 8:16 AM

    Happy Birthday, Booyee!!!

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  4. ofternoons-n-coffeespoonsApril 20, 2009 at 2:45 PM

    Happy birthday, Prabhu :)

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  5. PadmaApril 21, 2009 at 12:46 AM

    Many happy returns Prabhu! Wishing you a great year ahead! :)

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  6. AnonymousApril 21, 2009 at 9:49 AM

    Yennadhu nesmavey msp is 26 years old ? Arasey, please pass an immediate order to increase his age.

    BNB (whose inferiority complex just increased by a couple of orders of magnitude)

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  7. dagaltiApril 21, 2009 at 11:39 AM

    Thank you compli.
    //Less a caterpillar, more a Bombyx Mori.//
    You surely did mean to be kind than kind of be mean. I mean I know what you mean :-)

    Thank you Divya. Kind of the words of the wise.

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  8. dagaltiApril 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    //Happy Birthday, Booyee!!!//
    Thank you aNNAthE !

    Thank you o-n-c and Padma :-)

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  9. dagaltiApril 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM

    Thank you BNB.
    Reminds me of the nightblind GM in Chinnathambi, to whom a greater degree of virtue is attributed than is the case :-)

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  10. Venkatesh KumaravelApril 22, 2009 at 3:10 PM

    Belated vAzthukkaL-NE! :-D

    //You surely did mean to be kind than kind of be mean. I mean I know what you mean :-) //

    ROTFL!

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  11. dagaltiApril 23, 2009 at 7:04 PM

    Thank You Venki

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  12. Shakthiprabha (Prabha Sridhar) May 8, 2009 at 12:49 PM

    //A caterpillar
    this deep in autumn
    still not a butterfly//

    and I can relate it to spirituality. I guess something is wrong with me, I wear blue glasses and everything looks blue.

    Deep words. thanks.

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  13. dagaltiMay 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM

    Nothing wrong SP :-)

    It is pretty spiritual. Much as one is advised not to go into the metaphors in Haikus, we all continue to search for metaphors which heighten how we can better relate to the poems.

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