pynchon-l-digest V2 #9475

[Ian Livingston]

Of course that depends upon the culture you consult. American first nations
describe animals as workers in magic. Not positive, but I think that is
true of the Maori as well, in their dream-time shenanigans. From a
Euro-American perspective, though, that seems an interesting division.

One late autumn morning, with a sea like glass and crystal-perfect air, I
drove down Hwy 1 south of Big Sur and saw several flocks of birds perched
in their various groups by specie on wires, fences, and shrubs, with the
turkey vultures forming at the center a semi-circular choir around one of
their own. That one stood on a limb projecting upward from a beached log to
 form a perch whereon it stood with wings outstretched in the sun facing
the whole crowd, as if in address, or exhortation. I shit you not. The
scene like to made me believe in something fairly heretical.

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:28 AM, CHRISTIAN kumpe <Kumpe3000 at gmx.de> wrote:

> @ Ian Livingston
>
> catastrophic animal...just came a cross the notion, that man is the only
> animal possessing magic{k}.
>
> best,
> Christian.
>
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