Friday wol is diverse and random

[extemporanea]

Hooray, working at home today! Clearly it's time for a celebratory wol. We haven't had one in weeks, so let's have two.

1. Courtesy of Confluency and a diverse trail of re-tweets, How to draw an owl. Amusingly cynical, and a lovely drawing.
   
   
2. Edward Lear. I teach nonsense poetry to my second-year class, largely to their bemused bafflement, but I

Comments

[jeanniewal]

Hooray! I love that poem :) Thanks for a thoughtful and interesting insight into it!

[extemporanea]

Anyone with any taste at all loves that poem :>. Glad you enjoyed the random analysis.

[dancing_crow]

I also love that poem, probably at least in part because I could recite it at a young age, which also made learning to read it easier.

I always identified strongly with the pussycat, and assumed my (idiosyncratic and educated) husband was owlish, to the extent that when I bought us a canoe it was pea green (Not, you understand, pea soup green which is a nice color but not for boats).

[extemporanea]

It actually has a beautiful rhythm and feel, it's sensuously pleasing to recite. I am deeply in favour of your excellent choice in boat paint :>. I've never identified with either the owl or the cat particularly, but owls and cats are my co-favourite creatures so I've never had to.

My students are always very interested in the cat/bird dynamic, as in the cat should eat the owl, and I always amuse them by telling them that, as someone who's grown up with both cats and owls, my money's on the owl :>.