Of all non-human creations , the birds give the most powerful impression of being up to something, of knowing something. In their quick, giggling, hopping, jerking, twitching, twittering way they seem to have a direct, intuitive contact with the secret of life. We have to get there by careful and disciplined thought, we have to wrestle with time .. .. and even then we can't be sure of the sudden liberation, that sudden flash of truth and ecstasy; we can't make it happen, But birds live there all the time. Birds are not single either. They know whatever it is they know together. They are not allowed to tell us, but they know about us too, they swoop mimbling and tweaking at us, turning away in a perfect swift curve, with a hint of a message for us ; but it is too quick. Of course, they don't know it all, they just know the part we don't know, and vice versa; the ones who know everything are a combination of man and bird .... the angels. ( I wonder if any of my readers have any idea where that came from ) ( There's more of it in the pipeline arriving shortly.)
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