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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? The terrified bird keeps leaping off his glove and trying to fly away, so he hangs him, upside down, by his feet.

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