04-22-2003, 09:34 PM
I'm glad you're enjoying it so far, Richard. As it happens, I did catch a raven when I was young, as I had the idea of training it to kill at a word of command. I know this not a good idea now, but it seemed pretty clever back then.<br>
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I called my raven 'Omen' and I'm sorry to say, it killed itself as wild birds will do in captivity. It refused to eat, pulled all its feathers out and died.<br>
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I was too young to see any kind of metaphor with the feathers, but I used the experience in the book, along with my attempt to cremate it in Viking style with lighter fluid. I was crushed to find I'd only cooked it.<br>
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As for Cabera, he's my touch of the mythical, the seer, the healer, the early saint, perhaps. The sort to tell someone to beware the Ides.<br>
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Conn<br>
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I called my raven 'Omen' and I'm sorry to say, it killed itself as wild birds will do in captivity. It refused to eat, pulled all its feathers out and died.<br>
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I was too young to see any kind of metaphor with the feathers, but I used the experience in the book, along with my attempt to cremate it in Viking style with lighter fluid. I was crushed to find I'd only cooked it.<br>
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As for Cabera, he's my touch of the mythical, the seer, the healer, the early saint, perhaps. The sort to tell someone to beware the Ides.<br>
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Conn<br>
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