Above & below left: Robert Stroud, the Bird Man of Alcatraz |
This blog's purpose is to promote the novel, The Long Habit of Living, by Mark Zipoli. Posts have excerpts from the book and related visuals to give the reader a heightened literary experience. Oftentimes posts may refer to my championing the works of John Cowper Powys, Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Anita Brookner, and other heroes.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Page 327 "Revenant, sitting beneath their portraits, sullen, crabby, posed a bizarre contrast to their dialectical history."
From page 327 of the book: Revenant, sitting beneath their portraits, sullen, crabby, posed a bizarre contrast to their dialectical history. A "How To" book on binoculars lay open in front of him on his desk. Piled next to the book on binoculars was a copy of Diseases of Canaries by Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz. Beneath that was Mervin Roberts' All About Breeding Canaries. I refixed my attention onto the priest.
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