Four 'Very Interesting' Excerpts From Walt's 'Bird Songs'

1.

‘which Types of birds are Flying around my property is None of my business. some Things are Better not to Know. sometimes i Think i Know too many Things already.’

2.

‘the Problem, of Course (for Ortolan enjoyers, that Is), is that God can see Your shame, whether You Are wearing a Napkin on your Head, or Not.’

3.

‘but kids are Cruel, you know that. they haven’t seen How cruel the world is Yet, so all that Cruelty is just stuck inside them.’

4.

‘they Kept a good house though, I’ll hand it to them. what happened To them? what do you Mean? i mean, why is the House all abandoned. oh. I don’t know. they got Old and died, or Maybe they moved down to Florida.’

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also a few extras from elsewhere on ‘walt’s Important thoughts’. this always catches my eye on rereading:

‘the Way the sun from a Window projected the shadow of a couple onto a Banner advertising ChinaGoods.com at JFK Airport was a One’

and a passage Walt gifts us and so I associate it with ‘walt’s Important thoughts’:

‘Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.’

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