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They were graceful, living, free things. They were triumphant. The getting of food, even the eating of sewage was done thus gracefully, beautifully.
Sherwood Anderson - Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (1921)
Anderson was describing gulls soaring and diving over a polluted river. Shitehawks my father used to call them. They feed on it but don't live in it.
Anderson was describing gulls soaring and diving over a polluted river. Shitehawks my father used to call them. They feed on it but don't live in it.
5 comments:
That is very, very astute, Mr H.
My measly tax bill pays for these bottom feeders.
Jack Point singing his song oh?
Scrobs - it does and they don't even have to account for it.
Demetrius - probably singing it on a better diet though.
Hardly graceful though is he, CAmeron.
More like a drunk vulture struggling to stand upright on a dead tree.
Rupert - not really graceful no. Too harassed to be that.
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