Posts tagged “animals”
Obscure Store
In which he posts a few links about birds
Octopus Love
A very special link via LarkFarm: Everything you ever wanted to know about Octopus Sex.
Hemingway’s Use of Animals as Psychological Symbols
On Hemingway’s use of animals as symbolism
Hemingway and the Beasts
Hemingway and the Beasts, by Jens Bjorneboe, is an essay exploring animal symbolism in Hemingway’s works. Update (June 2020): When I originally published this post, it included a link to a Norwegian translation of Bjorneboe’s essay, which was hosted on someone’s AT&T personal webpage. That website has since disappeared and I have been unable to
Puppy Chow
If you own a 30-pound pit bull and a 200-pound Burmese python and they are both missing, it’s probably safe to assume the worst. link via radio mookie
Ribbit
People keep searching this site for the word frog. I don’t know why. If you come here looking for frogs, please leave a note and tell me what you hoped to find. My mind wobbles.
In Theory
You really should read Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by the late, great Douglas Adams. There’s a bit in there about Schrödinger’s cat that started me tumbling down a long road (many, many years ago) of trying to learn everything I could about physics, metaphysics, philosophy, blah blah blah. (Try to find a copy of
Horse
If there’s one thing on the ‘net that I’m guilty of over-blogging, it’s this. I can’t help it. Every few months I somehow find myself reading it – and laughing – and I feel as if I must let anyone who hasn’t read it yet know it is there. Go read this. You will laugh.
Hippo News
News from Zoos
Fish News
The goldfish did not survive the conflagration.