A butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is also like a leaf and at the same time
like a paper airplane an owl's face a scholar flying from book to book. The most disparate
things approach one another in a butterfly the sort of dense nodule of likeness that Roger
Caillois once proposed calling a bizarre-privileged item.? In response critical theorist Paul
North proposes a spiritual exercise: imagine a universe made up solely of likenesses. There are
no things only traits acting according to the law of series here and there a thick overlap
that appears bizarre.?
