parrots in Pynchon

[Louis Goddard]

> On the other hand, though, parrots bite.

CALLOWAY:  I told you to go away, Martins.  This isn't Santa Fe, I'm
not a sheriff, and you aren't a cowboy.  You have been blundering
around with the worst bunch of racketeers in Vienna, your precious
Harry's friends, and now you're wanted for murder.
MARTINS:  Put in drunk and disorderly, too.

CALLOWAY:  I have. What's the matter with your hand?

MARTINS:  A parrot bit me.

CALLOWAY:  Oh, stop behaving like a fool, Martins.

2009/2/24  <kelber at mindspring.com>:
> On the other hand, though, parrots bite.  Nothing magical or hallucinogenic about that.  When I was a kid, my big sister had a parrot named Zoe that bit really hard when you stuck your finger in the cage.  Kind of the same personality as Joaquin, the parrot in ATD.
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> I have an acquaintance who treats her pet parrot like he's a kitty-cat.  She cradles him in her arms, strokes his tummy and feeds him bits of cheese and even chicken.  He knows lots of phrases, all in Russian, and when he sees a treat he wants, he shouts:  Vkusna! (tasty!).
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> They're complex animals, with lots of personality.  Maybe they're the hippies of the avian kingdom?
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> Laura
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>>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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>>Let's riff on this for a moment....parrots are like tripping,
>>getting high, giggling and talking a lot; parrots are like
>>magical realism, flights of surreal connections -verbally--,
>>what is 'reality' re the parrots asks Bekah and maybe
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>>the reality is that they mediate reality--that huge Vineland theme--
>>with words that connect magically, so to speak, like word-users
>>who mediate reality for us?  Words they hear but repeat in unusual
>>ways.  a small symbol of the writer in the modern world?
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