The Birds of Failure [th
uh - bûrds - uhv - feyl-yer]
- plural noun
1. the sound of any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves that occurs between the hour of 6am-7am after an act of staying up all night, as to study or finish a task, which marks the point of emotional capitulation.
She still had two paragraphs to go when suddenly the silence of the night was broken and she heard the Birds of Failure.
Something taught to me by a wise man named Lewis during a long session of Social Nesting last night.