my scrub jays

[James Kyllo]

Hi

Maybe these jays are a regular feature for Lew Archer.  I read my
first, Black Money (1965), last night - and it won't be the last.
Chapter 27 opens

"A jay who lived in my neighbourhood woke me up in the morning.  He
was perched on a high limb outside my second-story apartment window,
and he was yelling his head off for salted peanuts."

and back at the beginning there was a creeping fig, with birds:

""In the creeping fig that covered one wall of the court, a pair of
house finches were discussing family matters" (Page 2)

best


James





On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
>
>
> Sorry to dwell on the first sentence of VL, but I just got hold
> of Ross Macdonald's The Underground Man, and things seem to be
> getting intertextual. The novel begins as follows:
>
>  [...] I went back to bed and slept
> until I was wakened in the morning by my scrub jays.
>  I called them mine. There were five or six of them taking turns
> at dive-bombing the window sill, then retreating to the magnolia
> tree next door.
>  I went into the kitchen and opened a can of peanuts and threw a
> handful out of the window. The jays swooped down into the yard of
> the apartment building. I put on some clothes and went down the
> outside stairs with the rest of the can of peanuts." (TUM, p. 5,
> Fontana/Collins pbk, 1971)

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