http://cygnoir.disqus.com/Fiction, foibles, and fountain pens from a black swan with digital wings. Posts about writing, books, public libraries, community, games, analog delight, and food.enMon, 14 Sep 2009 22:34:22 -0000http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/#comment-201210831<p>I couldn't ask for a higher compliment, David. Thank you!</p>cygnoirMon, 14 Sep 2009 22:34:22 -0000http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/#comment-201210830<p>You are kind to say so. Most of my flying is, to borrow heavily from Douglas Adams, merely missing the ground.</p>cygnoirMon, 14 Sep 2009 22:33:59 -0000http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/#comment-16595877<p>I couldn't ask for a higher compliment, David. Thank you!</p>cygnoirMon, 14 Sep 2009 17:34:22 -0000http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/#comment-16595855<p>You are kind to say so. Most of my flying is, to borrow heavily from Douglas Adams, merely missing the ground.</p>cygnoirMon, 14 Sep 2009 17:33:59 -0000http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/#comment-201210829<p>I couldn't ask for a higher compliment, David. Thank you!</p>cygnoirMon, 14 Sep 2009 16:34:22 -0000http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/#comment-201210827<p>You are kind to say so. Most of my flying is, to borrow heavily from Douglas Adams, merely missing the ground.</p>cygnoirMon, 14 Sep 2009 16:33:59 -0000http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/#comment-16216062<p>Great insight. I'm always amazed to see how flocks of city pigeons fly intricately, as a single organism. And "lit­tle, sud­den, sharp, gone" -- reminds me of the end of a L. Cohen song: "And they're gone like smoke/And they're gone like this song."</p>David LarssonTue, 08 Sep 2009 18:31:27 -0000http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/#comment-16214594<p>Yes, but I still see you as a person who has wings and flies in the sky, not a person who daintily hops along the ground.</p><p>That reality enforces mechanical augmentation upon us to take flight is neither here nor there.</p>wireheadTue, 08 Sep 2009 17:54:12 -0000http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/#comment-201210826<p>Great insight. I'm always amazed to see how flocks of city pigeons fly intricately, as a single organism. And "lit­tle, sud­den, sharp, gone" -- reminds me of the end of a L. Cohen song: "And they're gone like smoke/And they're gone like this song."</p>David LarssonTue, 08 Sep 2009 17:31:27 -0000http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/#comment-201210824<p>Yes, but I still see you as a person who has wings and flies in the sky, not a person who daintily hops along the ground.<br><br>That reality enforces mechanical augmentation upon us to take flight is neither here nor there.</p>wireheadTue, 08 Sep 2009 16:54:12 -0000