I got a book a few days ago with this picture on the front cover. But the more I looked at it, the less likely it looked. Is such a picture possible ? Without any photoshopping or jiggery-pokery ? I think not. I must say, however, that the battered binoculars look the part. And the hairy arms. But the really odd thing is, why have they put a battered, scratched and totally tatty pair of bins on the front cover ? Is it some sort of tribal totem .... like carrying a spear covered in the blood of the enemy ? Or driving a tank covered in the scars of battle. And talking of tanks, if I collide with a tank whilst driving, surely it's not my fault, because the camouflage is specially put there to make it hard to see. [ The more I look at those binoculars, the more they look like mine.] [ I did get them ±23rd-hand, so maybe they are.] On top of that, I've no idea what that bird is ... and that's hardly surprising, because its a book about the birds of Argentina. And what about this ... my binoculars, for some unknown reason, were on the back of the settee , big end facing inside, little end facing outside, and looking at them from 4m away, they look completely hollow. As if there was nothing in there. And all traces of the "smaller" eye-lens end have vanished. It's more like looking through the cardboard thingy inside a toilet roll. Maybe there aren't any "innards", and it's all an illusion . A spell is put on the empty tubes as they leave the factory to "binocularise" it. Binocularisation is probably what they call it. You all be off now to try it yourselves. But not the driving into a tank thing. Here's the perfectly odd music to suit my own perfectly oddliness .... Also, I've already told you all about how bins and scopes arrived on earth ... and why they've all got odd names like Kowa and Swarovski and suchlike ... it's all on the end of this link ...
(this will appear when I've found it .) In the meantime, here's a startling analysis of what binoculars and telescopes really are ..... all rather Freudian ... 218-scopes-and-bins-their-symbolic-hinterland.html
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