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Explain Taylor's Point When He Asks Us to Imagine the Worms

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Explain Taylor's point when he asks us to imagine the worms in certain caves in New Zealand. "Each dot of light identifies an ugly worm, whose luminous tail is meant to attract insects from the surrounding darkness. As from time to time one of these insects draws near it becomes entangled in a sticky thread lowered by the worm, and is eaten. This goes on month after month, the blind worm lying there in the barren stillness waiting to entrap an occasional bit of nourishment that will only sustain it to another hit of nourishment until .... Until what?"


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