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1 " I have taken the liberty of quoting at length throughout from the gospels of the Emperor penguins. To them I owe a special debt of gratitude for their remarkable patience. "
― Donald Finkel , Adequate Earth
2 " Vogelfanger"Play with birds and one day the birds begin to play with you.First sparrows, little,with a darting life of their own: they arrange themselves,there, among crumbs, or on wires, a fine distribution!Then one rises, and another, past your face,a flutter of beads and feathers. Suddenly the astonished sky is fullof nails, knocked like stars in the roof, to keepthe whole blue nothing up.Who'll buy my sparrows?Who'll listen to their quarrelsand comprehend?They hop up and down in their cages like guilty secrets.Lightly the airpresses down on our shouldersits great blue thumbs,lightly, as if afraid to hurt us.What will you do when the sky falls, brother? See?the sparrows hold it up:pray to them. "
― Donald Finkel
