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T.H. White: When Writers Become Bad Falconers

10,000 Birds

Do I have sympathy for haunted people who subject animals – be they captive wildlife or household pets – to all kinds of atrocities, then are held up as tragic examples of struggling humanity? Spoiler: the hawk ends up like the fish, not the whale. He may not be Michael Vick, but he’s certainly no Helen Macdonald, either.

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