tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4963130951575104788..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Samuel Johnson: The VultureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16656106559403485242010-03-12T08:03:38.077-08:002010-03-12T08:03:38.077-08:00A rather bleak little allegory: he probably had s...A rather bleak little allegory: he probably had some specific target in mind--deists perhaps? Or clerics of one type or another.<br /><br />That's an old world vulture--griffins, yes. The new world types such as zopilotes are quite different, even slightly ...reptilian. The taxonomists are still undecided what proper class or name to put them in. <br /><br /><br />Vultures, like jackals are one of the totems of shamsan kali, ah believe, in trad. hinduism...deathbirdsJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87833581678728711892010-03-12T06:24:06.683-08:002010-03-12T06:24:06.683-08:00I believe Johnson may have feared -- or been tippe...I believe Johnson may have feared -- or been tipped -- that the world was not quite ready for the radical implications of this piece. In any case he dropped it out when he collected The Idler essays in book form.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31069738793316461462010-03-12T03:33:51.188-08:002010-03-12T03:33:51.188-08:00His opinion was, that men had only the appearance ...<i>His opinion was, that men had only the appearance of animal life, being really vegetables with a power of motion; and that as the boughs of an oak are dashed together by the storm, that swine may fatten upon the fallen acorns, so men are by some unaccountable power driven one against another, till they lose their motion, that vultures may be fed.</i><br /><br />A buzzard Aristotle waxes on final causes. Bravo. Rather fantastical for the good Dr.Johnson...Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61868908357810201562010-03-11T19:07:07.397-08:002010-03-11T19:07:07.397-08:00the distillation
man is the best
friend
of vultu...the distillation<br /><br />man is the best<br />friend <br />of vulturesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com