Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Tue Jul 26 15:35:13 CDT 2011


On 7/26/2011 3:48 PM, David Morris wrote:
> So I guess your point would be that birds' raucous dying is just an
> extension of the way they lived?
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Joe Allonby<joeallonby at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> "Raucous" is often used to describe the behavior of certain birds:
>> magpies, jays, crows.
I associate the raucous noise of birds with wild flapping of wings, but 
the Dodos only had tiny vestigial ones.

Is it possible that the raucous dying of the birds was in Franz's 
imagination?

He saw the Dodos as devils, whom I associate with raucous laughter.

Killing the Dodo was in part a religious obligation.

The devil doesn't depart sedately, but mockingly.

Franz was was pretty demented by this time.

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