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Monday, August 13, 2007

Cruelty

















A scops owl was chewing my finger this weekend. Not this one, which I found here, but a fair imitation of him.

Isaiah Berlin writes to Stephen Spender, 1936:

My colleague O’Neil […] went to a law Court where a man was condemned to 4 months for throwing a stone at a bird – against Goering’s new Reichsjagdgesetzbuch (Reich Hunting Code) – because that is bestial cruelty and the National Socialist Regime is opposed to cruelty in every shape & form.

Found in Graeme Gibson’s Bedside Book of Birds.

Posted by at 13.8.07

2 comments:

Mark Granier said...

Remarkable. No comment needed. That's exactly the kind of thing Anthony might have adapted for one of his Hiroshima quatrains.

4:50 PM
Twenty Major said...

Owls are cunts.

10:53 PM

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