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"Ormen og krogen er langt længere nede ad åen nu. "Hvis jeg ikke snart fanger noget, kommer du aldrig med på fisketur mere," forsikrer jeg hunden. Den lader et kort øjeblik den lange tunge hænge helt ud af munden og siger: "Aaaha! Aaaha! Aaaha!" Så haler den tungen ind igen og lukker munden. Den morer sig over de mærkeligste ting, den hund. Så prøver vi forfra igen. Plump! Og så nærmer stålormen sig atter roden." I sansende, følende, smagende, filosofiske og underholdende fortællinger og betragtninger giver Poul Blak i "Den enøjede sommerfugl" sit bud på konstellationen menneske-natur.

In October of 1949, a few months after publication of George Orwell‘s masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he received a letter from fellow author Aldous Huxley, a man who, 17 years previous, had seen his own nightmarish vision of society published in the form of the classic, Brave New World. What begins as a letter of praise soon becomes a brief comparison of the two novels, and an explanation as to why Huxley believes his own earlier work to be a more realistic prediction