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meeting: "It was done entre gallos y medianoche"-a Castilian expression for an evil deed committed between midnight and cock's crow...
Closed Set. "I'm amazed at the reasoning power of the crow," says Bird Trainer Ray Berwick, a raven perched on the top of his head. "Crows are the chimpanzees of birds. The hardest to train and catch are the hawks and eagles. You could teach them to hunt and kill, but they know it already. But you can't teach them any tricks." The seagulls have turned out to be the most fierce; Berwick and an assistant have been badly pecked. Berwick has taught the gulls to fly at an actor's head, clobber him with...
...meaning is not grasped the wasted. Generally, the significant an experience is intensely and uncommunicable. One reasons Updike's people are is they are locked in the emotions, unable to express their thoughts and fears to themselves. Whenever they do share their feelings, as does the husband in "The Crow in the they fail...
About an hour later, elsewhere in the city, John Lawrence, Philadelphia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was roused from sleep by the same callers. He refused to talk-at first cock's crow, anyway. At 6:45 that same morning, in Wilmington, Del., James T. Parks Jr., 28, business writer for the Wilmington evening Journal, arrived for work to find two FBI agents waiting for him. Parks saw no reason not to show the agents what they had come for: the notes that he had taken at the Bethlehem stockholders' meeting and the story that...
...instance is a brief story called The Crow in the Woods. In lacelike prose, with just enough homely obtrusions to prevent his art from seeming precious, Updike tells of a young man's epiphany. The hero wakes up on a winter morning, regards the beauty of his still-sleeping wife, and looks in awe at trees transformed by snow. He rises, fondly changes his baby daughter's diaper, and carries her downstairs, warmly conscious of the absent-minded pat of her hands on his neck. His wife bustles down and prepares breakfast. While he is eating...