GRGR (17): Birds & Messages

[David Morris]

"A little birdie told me..."

There has long been a tradition of birds portrayed as spirit messengers.  
The flight across the sky of a particular species has since ancient times 
been taken as an omen.  When one is caught and cut open its bowels are 
useful as an oracle too.

DM

>From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
>
>"Toward dusk, the black birds descend, millions of them, to sit in the 
>branches
>of trees nearby. The trees grow heavy with black birds, branches like 
>dendrites
>of the Nervous System fattening, deep in twittering nerve-dusk, in 
>preparation
>for some important message...." (p. 364)
>
>"...with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof. In his dream 
>these
>had been carrier pigeons from someplace far across the ocean, landing and 
>taking
>off again one by one, each bearing a message for him, but none of whom, 
>light
>pulsing in their wings, he could ever quite get to in time. He understood 
>it to
>be another deep nudge from forces unseen..." (Vineland, p. 3)
>
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