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Friday, April 29, 2005

Ivory Billed Woodpecker




No time to post anything at the moment, as I'm off to my last day at my temp job. I'll return later today to reply to comments and to post something else. For now I justed wanted to mention this story. Thought to be extinct for more than 60 years, the Ivory Billed Woodpecker has returned from the dead!

I don't know why I'm so excited over a bird sighting. I guess it just gives me a little bit of hope for planet Earth.

posted by Skrambled Egghead Reborn @ 7:33 AM

6 Comments:

YAY! Way to go Ivory Billed Woodpecker! And hasn't it got such an interesting pattern down its back?

By Blogger Hans the Destroyer, at 5:08 PM  

ah, resurrection. like in hopkins' immortal diamond. do you know the poem "that nature is a heraclitean fire and of the comfort of the resurrection"? one of my favorites (once i finally figured out what any of it meant).
hope among the ruins.

By Blogger girlgrey, at 5:40 PM  

Hansy,it's pretty cool looking. I had to use this painting I found on the web because there hasn't been a photo of it since 1945 or so, and I couldn't find one from the new discovery (if there is a photo).

And GG, that is a great poem. I'm not familiar with it, but I just looked it up and read it here. It took me about five reads to wrap my brain around it. Very cool stuff.

There is one line that I think people today might take out of context: "in gay-gangs they throng; they glitter in marches". Sounds like a gay pride parade or something today, but that ain't what he's talking about.

By Blogger Skrambled Egghead Reborn, at 8:41 PM  

skrambled: no, it certainly ain't. that is awesome to have gotten it that quickly. it took me a couple of weeks of back-boiling and stirring to get any of it. of course, i was younger then. i like to think that pink floyd borrowed the crazy diamond from him and his "immortal diamond." i love how he says that "man" [kind] is nature's best enterprise and yet "how fast... his [our] mark... is gone" because "death blots black out" and "vastness blurs and time beats [us] level". BUT... goes on to say that the one light is that we are connected to the eternal, and being made of the same stuff, through sacrifices of others including the christian god-flesh, we all become the "flash" that even the "world's wildfire" cannot erase as we are all part of the immortal.
hopkins is one of my favorites even though i always have to interpret what he is saying. he is sooooo depressive. but uplifts us at the last moment.
~a random stream springing from a woodpecker, i know, but still...~ it really is about redemption. which, in my opinion, is about all there is.

By Blogger girlgrey, at 9:55 PM  

i guess nothing ends a good conversation like a segue into lit. crit. my bad.

By Blogger girlgrey, at 9:36 PM  

Hmm...I don't know what you mean. I enjoyed reading your thoughts on that poem. I love talking about poems, and since I haven't read that one before it was good to get your take on it.

By Blogger Skrambled Egghead Reborn, at 11:11 PM  

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