Subject: [Tweeters] Jonathan Franzen in The New Yorker on birds
Date: Aug 12 12:49:53 2005
From: Doug Plummer - 2doug at dougplummer.com


Tweets,

There is a wonderful piece in this week's New Yorker magazine by Jonathan
Franzen on birding, love, death, politics, and more birding in his
inimitable narcissistic style. It's the August 8 & 15th issue. An excerpt,
describing his first birding experience in Central Park:

"I felt as if, all my life, I'd been mistaken about something important. I
followed my visitors into the Ramble in agreeably engrossed disbelief, as
in a dream in which yellowthroats and redstards and black-throated blue and
black-throated green warblers had been placed like ornaments in the urban
foliage, and a film production unit had left behind tanagers and buntings
like rolls of gaffer's tape, and overbirds were jogging down the Ramble's
eroded hillsides like tiny costumed stragglers from some Fifth Avenue
parade; as if these birds were just momentary bright litter, and the Park
would soon be cleaned up and made recognizable again."

Doug Plummer
Seattle
www.dougplummer.com