Posts tagged “animals”
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.
Gators
About 1.5 million alligators live in Florida, and 287 attacks against humans have been recorded in the past 52 years. A full-grown horse was attacked by an alligator and dragged into a pond in Titusville; and a two year old girl is Florida’s 2nd gator fatality this year.
Cats
I’m interested in learning how you feel about this: A company called Transgenic Pets is attempting to create genetically modified cats. These cats, “will be like any other cats except they will no longer have the protein that causes an allergic reaction in human beings.” BBC article NY Times article