Comments on: when the flock moved http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/ the black swan with digital wings Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: cygnoir http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/comment-page-1/#comment-7184 cygnoir Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:34:00 +0000 http://cygnoir.net/?p=2795#comment-7184 I couldn't ask for a higher compliment, David. Thank you! I couldn’t ask for a higher compliment, David. Thank you!

]]> By: cygnoir http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/comment-page-1/#comment-7183 cygnoir Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:33:00 +0000 http://cygnoir.net/?p=2795#comment-7183 You are kind to say so. Most of my flying is, to borrow heavily from Douglas Adams, merely missing the ground. You are kind to say so. Most of my flying is, to borrow heavily from Douglas Adams, merely missing the ground.

]]> By: David Larsson http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/comment-page-1/#comment-7179 David Larsson Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:31:00 +0000 http://cygnoir.net/?p=2795#comment-7179 Great insight. I'm always amazed to see how flocks of city pigeons fly intricately, as a single organism. And "lit­tle, sud­den, sharp, gone" -- reminds me of the end of a L. Cohen song: "And they're gone like smoke/And they're gone like this song." Great insight. I’m always amazed to see how flocks of city pigeons fly intricately, as a single organism. And “lit­tle, sud­den, sharp, gone” — reminds me of the end of a L. Cohen song: “And they’re gone like smoke/And they’re gone like this song.”

]]> By: wirehead http://cygnoir.net/2009/09/08/when-the-flock-moved/comment-page-1/#comment-7178 wirehead Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:54:00 +0000 http://cygnoir.net/?p=2795#comment-7178 Yes, but I still see you as a person who has wings and flies in the sky, not a person who daintily hops along the ground. That reality enforces mechanical augmentation upon us to take flight is neither here nor there. Yes, but I still see you as a person who has wings and flies in the sky, not a person who daintily hops along the ground.

That reality enforces mechanical augmentation upon us to take flight is neither here nor there.

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