zen do dia [#6]

"You may remember, my dear friend, that when we lately spent that happy day in the delightful garden and sweet society of the Moulin Joly, I stopped a little in one of our walks, and stayed some time behind the company. We had been shown numberless skeletons-of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day."

Benjamin Franklin