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...things are more dear to a bird than its freedom to take wing and fly. Bound to his perch, Mr. Threskiornis had become tarnished and cracked as his captors in the building below passed the years in revelry, potation, and occasional attempts at satire. Yet more damaging than his long and unrelieved exposure to the elements was the loss of Ibis' personal dignity. Unable to stir from the Lampoon's roof, he became a mere symbol--a ridiculous mascot whose captivity was somehow to be a fitting embodiment of the edifice upon which he stood...
...time for the Lampoon truly to hold the Ibis sacred. No matter how warped one's sense of humor, a bird's freedom is no joke. Mr. Threskiornis should be set free at once. It is time that he regain his noble birthright and once again be free to stretch his wings and test the Cambridge skies...
...assertion that he's "saving Virginia Woolf for when I'm dead," or his hilarious skewering of Marquezian pyrotechnics; "A quota system is to be introduced on fiction set in South America. The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony....Ah, the daiquiri bird which incubates its eggs on the wing; ah the fredonna tree whose root grow at the tips of its branches, and whose fibers assist the hunchback to impregnate by telepathy the haughty wife of the hacienda owner; ah, the opera house now overgrown by jungle...
...lead anywhere in particular, but the stroll itself yields immeasurable self-understanding. He does find many guises of his subject along the way, just as he finds many stuffed parrots while rummaging through the museums of Rouca, but Flaubert probably succeeded in his artistic credo after all--this bird has flown...
...White House is playing one scene at a time, hoping to put together a string of successes like the one last week. "This was the first real test as to whether it's a healthy or a lame duck," said White House Congressional Liaison W. Dennis Thomas. "And this bird flew...