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From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
> Never ever been chased by a swan myself, whether white or black. I did
> once
> get a slightly beady-eyed stare off one, because I wasn't throwing it any
> bread, but that's about it. This covers swans of Avon to Melbourne, never
> any real problems.
>
> I do think they're snobbish, but that's another issue. (Couldn't decide
> then
> whether to write 'snobs' or 'snobbish' - oh the valency of words.)
Isn't that anthropomorphism? You're getting as bad as Zeus, here.
joanna
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