The Goshawk

✍ Scribed by White, Theodore H

• Book ID: 110485419
• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: New York Review Books Classics
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781590172490

✦ Synopsis

What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T. H. White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham's Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence--"the bird reverted to a feral state"--seized his imagination, and, White later wrote, "A longing came to my mind that I should be able to do this myself. The word 'feral' has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, 'ferocious' and 'free.'" Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love....
Number of Words in Auth: 3
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