GRGR (17): Birds & Messages

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

"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)

other associations that come into my mind are noah's dove & hitchcock's "the 
birds" [1963].

                                                          kfl