For the birds

Buford Strange was already at the North Paragon, and with him were Adrian Montaigne and Vincent Rue.

"I have already ordered for ourselves and for yourself, Christopher," Buford said. "It is sheldrake, and I hope that you like it. They will not prepare it for fewer than four persons. 'We can't go around killing quarter ducks,' they say."

- - R.A. Lafferty, "Days of Grass, Days of Straw"


Today's earrings: owls, crows

Bedtime reading: The Gay Phoenix, Michael Innes