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--=======AVGMAIL-45BA332F4AFC======= Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_21024312==.ALT"; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5FCC2DB9 --=====================_21024312==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5FCC2DB9 At 10:11 AM 26/01/2007, Chris wrote: >This spiraling growth form of plants is called chirality. Not to diminish any of Chris's thorough explanation, I would also like to add another interpretation, from a song by Michael Flanders (melody by Donald Swan), called "Misalliance". Misalliance The fragrant Honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun And many other creepers do the same. But some climb anti-clockwise; the Bindweed does, for one, Or Convolvulus, to give her proper name. Rooted on either side a door one of each species grew And raced towards the window-ledge above; Each corkscrewed to the lintel in the only way it knew, Where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled, and fell in love. Said the right-handed Honeysuckle To the left-handed Bindweed: 'Oh, let us get married If our parents don't mind; we'd Be loving and inseparable, Inextricably entwined; we'd Live happily ever after,' Said the Honeysuckle to the Bindweed. To the Honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock. 'The Bindweeds', they cried, 'are inferior stock, They're uncultivated, of breeding bereft; We twine to the right and they twine to the left!' Said the anti-clockwise Bindweed To the clockwise Honeysuckle: 'We'd better start saving, Many a mickle maks a muckle, Then run away for a honeymoon And hope that our luck'll Take a turn for the better,' Said the Bindweed to the Honeysuckle. A Bee who was passing remarked to them then: Tve said it before, and I'll say it again; Consider your off-shoots, if off-shoots there be, They'll never receive any blessing from me! 'Poor little sucker, how will it learn When it is climbing, which way to turn? Right-left-what a disgrace! Or it may go straight up and fall flat on its face!' Said the right-hand thread Honeysuckle To the left-hand thread Bindweed: 'It seems that against us All fate has combined ... Oh my darling, oh my darling Oh my darling Columbine, Thou art lost and gone for ever, We shall never intertwine.' Together they found them the very next day. They had pulled up their roots and just shrivelled away, Deprived of that freedom for which we must fight- To veer to the left or to veer to the right! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Maybank Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds" author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia" http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm 144 Bayview Drive White's Lake, Nova Scotia, B3T 1Z1, Canada maybank@ns.sympatico.ca (902) 852-2077 --=====================_21024312==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5FCC2DB9 <html> <body> At 10:11 AM 26/01/2007, Chris wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">This spiraling growth form of plants is called chirality. </blockquote><br> Not to diminish any of Chris's thorough explanation, I would also like to add another interpretation, from a song by Michael Flanders (melody by Donald Swan), called "Misalliance".<br><br> <h2><font size=4><b>Misalliance</b></font></h2>The fragrant Honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun <br> And many other creepers do the same. <br> But some climb anti-clockwise; the Bindweed does, for one, <br> Or <i>Convolvulus</i>, to give her proper name.<br><br> Rooted on either side a door one of each species grew <br> And raced towards the window-ledge above; <br> Each corkscrewed to the lintel in the only way it knew, <br> Where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled, and fell in love.<br><br> Said the right-handed Honeysuckle <br> To the left-handed Bindweed: <br> 'Oh, let us get married <br> If our parents don't mind; we'd <br> Be loving and inseparable, <br> Inextricably entwined; <br> we'd Live happily ever after,' <br> Said the Honeysuckle to the Bindweed.<br><br> To the Honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock. <br> 'The Bindweeds', they cried, 'are inferior stock, <br> They're uncultivated, of breeding bereft; <br> We twine to the right and they twine to the left!'<br><br> Said the anti-clockwise Bindweed <br> To the clockwise Honeysuckle: <br> 'We'd better start saving, <br> Many a mickle maks a muckle, <br> Then run away for a honeymoon <br> And hope that our luck'll <br> Take a turn for the better,' <br> Said the Bindweed to the Honeysuckle.<br><br> A Bee who was passing remarked to them then: <br> Tve said it before, and I'll say it again; <br> Consider your off-shoots, if off-shoots there be, <br> They'll never receive any blessing from me!<br><br> 'Poor little sucker, how will it learn <br> When it is climbing, which way to turn? <br> Right-left-what a disgrace! <br> Or it may go straight up and fall flat on its face!'<br> Said the right-hand thread Honeysuckle <br> To the left-hand thread Bindweed: <br> 'It seems that against us <br> All fate has combined ... <br> Oh my darling, oh my darling <br> Oh my darling Columbine, <br> Thou art lost and gone for ever, <br> We shall never intertwine.'<br><br> Together they found them the very next day. <br> They had pulled up their roots and just shrivelled away, <br> Deprived of that freedom for which we must fight-<br> To veer to the left or to veer to the right!<br><br> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> Blake Maybank<br> Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"<br><br> author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"<br> <a href="http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm" eudora="autourl"> http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm<br><br> </a>144 Bayview Drive<br> White's Lake, Nova Scotia, <br> B3T 1Z1, Canada<br><br> maybank@ns.sympatico.ca<br> (902) 852-2077 </body> </html> --=====================_21024312==.ALT-- --=======AVGMAIL-45BA332F4AFC======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=us-ascii; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5FCC2DB9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. 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