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The point about the first hearing was that the spring day , the open pond , the budding willows and dogwood were adjuncts to the song , or , conversely , the song was an adjunct to them , part of a texture from which the separate ...
The point about the first hearing was that the spring day , the open pond , the budding willows and dogwood were adjuncts to the song , or , conversely , the song was an adjunct to them , part of a texture from which the separate ...
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For since every oriole's song is slightly different in phrasing from every other , one may at first think he is hearing a new bird altogether until he recognizes the oriole quality . Moreover , the morning song may change two or three ...
For since every oriole's song is slightly different in phrasing from every other , one may at first think he is hearing a new bird altogether until he recognizes the oriole quality . Moreover , the morning song may change two or three ...
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Certainly the aids to recognition we find in the field guides are in the nature of things far less satisfactory for hearing than for sight . Long ago W. H. Hudson wrote a shrewd essay on the futility of trying to represent bird songs by ...
Certainly the aids to recognition we find in the field guides are in the nature of things far less satisfactory for hearing than for sight . Long ago W. H. Hudson wrote a shrewd essay on the futility of trying to represent bird songs by ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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