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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.
That is very, very astute, Mr H.
ReplyDeleteMy measly tax bill pays for these bottom feeders.
Jack Point singing his song oh?
ReplyDeleteScrobs - it does and they don't even have to account for it.
ReplyDeleteDemetrius - probably singing it on a better diet though.
Hardly graceful though is he, CAmeron.
ReplyDeleteMore 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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