TUESDAY
I thought: don’t go to a really exotic place if you have a dull life. If you do, you might end up killing yourself in an interesting way so that you can say: “I died in a really exotic place, and in an interesting way.”I didn’t expect to see hundreds of centipedes crawling over each other like a swath of braided rope in precise formation and constant motion, but I did.
Today I saw the delicate grass fronds wither and disappear when I tried to touch them, and then they came back when I went away. (Metaphor?)
Today I decided that I would buy Charles Darwin a beer, were he to still want one.
Today I finally realized that I wouldn’t crush a scorpion if I saw one, because I did see one.
Today I saw my first real live coffee bean. I wanted to crush it SO badly!
Comments
I am not sure what you mean by "whole thing" but the grass fronds (sleeping grass) and the centipedes are real. Scorpions are around, I saw them. Crushing a coffee bean wasn't real and killing yourself in an exotic place wasn't real. It all took place in Boquete. The Darwin was just a nod to the idea of what it takes to survive in some places (as in this one, for centipedes.)