ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author intends to establish some means of self-identification with the little creature. The author suspects it will be easier for him to do so with the 'Daddy-long-legs' than it was with the Centipede. One such means is to call him 'darling', first as a variant on 'dear little', secondly as an apt alliteration with his name, including not only the initial D but also the repeated L and the final G. The author considers Angus Wilson's 'such darling d', and left him with his 'dodos', for two good reasons. One is the obvious reason that dodos are not insects, and as non-such they hardly merit discussion in a book entitled 'The Secret Life of Insects'. The other is that in the author's opinion the 'Daddy-long-legs' has a much better claim, to the epithet 'darling' than all the dodos in the world.
