-laughs- Well, the explanation takes like…ten freakin’ years to formulate in any way that makes any freakin’ sense. So I’m just gonna copypasta the whole explanation I gave to an anon like a year ago. Hope you don’t mind if I plagiarize myself. ;)
It is a commedia dell’arte reference to Pierrot, a stock character that was defined by being naive and unshakably trusting. Farfalla means “butterfly” in Italian, and Pierrot often portrayed a butterfly-hunter in his performances. Pirro is Italian for “pyrrhic,” referring to a Greek warlike dance that consists of moves reminiscent of battle motions. It’s also a reference to the Greek King Pyrrhus and the phrase: “a pyrrhic victory,” in which the battle is won, but the cost negates the triumph of victory.The relevance to me lies in the dual meaning: 1) the absurdity of being a butterfly hunter, a warrior out to obtain a thing of beauty at a great cost to sanity, engaged in an endless dance of wits and elusion, and 2) the endless battles of life fought to obtain the unattainable, and the realization that life is better spent embracing your humanity and accepting the consequences of battles hard won.