Just a few minutes ago, as I was sitting at midnight on the little balcony that looks to the east, dreaming of Quixote - an owl flew down from a bearby tree and swooped straight at my head.
It turned away at the last second and swept up its silent wings, flashed its white belly at me, and flew away into the night.
I juxtapose this experience with my habit of 'nailing the owl to the door' when I try to write or research. The 'owl' symbolises curiosity, intellectual curiosity, which is a compulsion I struggle with a lot. I don't recall where I read the expression, now...I'm gonna Google it. BRB 5 minutes
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Of the length of each recording of Walking Dog Monologues: the length will be determined by the duration of the walk. There will be no adding to the thing after I am home, and no prepatory recording, it is what it is.
The title, Walking Dog Monologues, works on 2 levels: one, referring to the act of walking a dog, but also referring to me as'Walking Dog'. That conjures up a nice image for me, due to my identity within a certain very small society, as 'The Great Dog of the North'. So, I am 'the Dog', who happens to be walking...with a dog.
SO: there is the genesis of the character of the narrator of these WDM episodes, he is Walking Dog. I like the association with Native American personal nomenclature, there
For the purposes of this audio file effor, this radio thing, I will particpate as narrator in the character of Walking Dog.
This narrator...it may be that I will base him partly on Joseph Konrad's Marlowe, and partly on the protagonist in Cronenberg's film, 'Naked Lunch'.
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