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There’s something geekily scientific about frogspawn. So reminiscent of cells under the microscope viewed in childhood biology classes that even in real life, with the visual clues of the third spatial dimension, it can be hard not to see the clusters of eggs as cross-sections of a tropical plant.
Even if there weren’t the suggestion of a cross-section in the decaying grass stalk that looks so like a cell wall, so reminiscent of xylem and phloem, I’d still be reaching for the fine focus control and trying to switch between objective lenses to get a better look.
And though a microscope doesn’t render the subject in black and white, at the cellular level things appear in monotone. Or is it just that old scientific texts show microscopic enlargements in monotone for ease and cost?
And then I look again and wonder if my mind has been completely bewitched and these are cells under a microscope that just happen to look like frogspawn. I am perplexed and delightfully confused and happy for an excuse to take another look.
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