whether it is the weather or whether it is not, i do not know.
There is this characteristic Monday-morning-soulful-mournfulness around.The birds seem to have lost all hope too, there starts another week, they seem to say.
Im sitting on the dining table, a change of place from my room next-door; overlooking the "garden" down below (though hardly one now,its a mess ) and the "chaath"/terrace on the right...i hear a crow crowing and the flatter of a pigeon's wings as it flies past......
Its a sunday but feels like a monday..still.
hell! the crows seem to be having some sort of a congregation; suddenly i hear a huge number of them..well...crowing! what else do they do!? Do they "croak"? nope frogs "croak" i think...anyways..
Its a sunday but (still) it feels like a monday.
...the crow is crowing still.........
(to be contd....i think)
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did you know that horde, hover, mob, murder, muster, parcel and parliament are all collective nouns that describe a 'congregation' of crows..?
so, say a parliament of crows and all their cawing suddenly seems to make sense, doesn't it?
just a random info-snippet to make your life a little interesting...
cheers :D
hmm guess this was a bit out of my promptorium !
no harm in admitting....eh
p.s- "Cawing" yesss that was the word i was looking for....wahlahh...and then realisation dawned.......
but that still leaves us with the question: what else to crows do besides "crowing" or "cawing" ..now that we have a whole "horde" and "murder" of them...(isnt "A murder of crows" also a name of a movie?!)btw..on second thoughts there s also 'storytelling of crows'!
a storytelling of crows sounds so gaiman-ish... something he would've conjured up in one of his sandman books...
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on the contrary..it also sounds "poe-ish" ! though edgar allan wrote about its cousin...the raven..but what the heck!!
poe's influence on gaiman's work is very pronounced, and obvious... so, yes, poe-ish as well :)
/s.
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