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The Goshawk (New York Review Books Classics)

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The visit included the first of many small bestowings — photographs, postcards, cuttings from catalogues — which Cockerell was to give him” (Warner). The project did not go well — the goshawk escaped — and White abandoned his plans to publish an account of the training. There's a term 'special interest' that has been going around as increasing numbers of folks and mass media find it comfortable to discuss being on the spectrum and/or neurodivergent and what it entails for their ability to zero in on one particular subject and make it their entire life for a time. In larger doses this would perhaps grow wearisome – but we are soon back to crisp delineations of feather and flight, and patient logbook chronicles of comings and goings at the nest. All'inizio ero letteralmente entusiasta, poi, procedendo con la lettura, l'euforia è andata un po' scemando.

On White's relationship to Sydney Cockerell: One of the bright spots that punctuated White's gloomy life was his warm friendship with Sydney Cockerell, who was, in the words of Noel Perrin, "one of the few human beings the author of The Once and Future King had much use for. Love asketh but himself to please, To bind another to his delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, and And builds a hell in heaven's despite. Rob Bijlsma, Netherlands * The challenges that birds of prey face are laid bare, but this is an upbeat book, one to lift the heart and give hope for the future. This was one of the books that I had to read for O-Level English literature, and it was the only really interesting one out of the set.A particular sentence — "the bird reverted to a feral state" — seized his imagination, and, White later wrote, "A longing came to my mind that I should be able to do this myself. Throughout his journey he is inspired by the writings of T H White who told of his attempts to tame a Goshawk in his much-loved book. Diario che è stato dichiaratamente scritto per poter essere pubblicato e consentire così all'autore di raggranellare qualche soldo, quel tanto che gli potesse consentire di mantenersi nella sua libertà e nella sua selvaticità nella campagna inglese, senza un vincolo o un padrone, libero di dedicare tutto il suo tempo e il suo impegno alla caccia e alla falconeria: dunque un libro dove, un po' come ne "La Storia infinita" di Ende, contenuto e contenitore si incrociano e si inseguono in un loop senza inizio e senza fine.

Owing to its intimate revelations of his personality, White was reluctant to publish the work, but acquiesced after his publisher happened upon the manuscript during a house visit in 1949.Today The Goshawk is regarded as a literary classic, considered by [many] to be White’s finest work.

Alla fine, il dilemma per White: essere felice perché l'amato animale sia libero, lontano e felice o crucciarsi per non poterlo più avere vicino, probabilmente infelice? He wished to love Gos, but did not know how to express that love; sadly for White and Gos, he could only express that love through domination: “I had loved Gos … He had hated and distrusted me … He had had guts to stand up against love for so long…”. Without it, we get merely an elusive man in an ultimately frustrating struggle with an even more elusive bird. It was as if he were holding aloft the flag of some long-defeated country to which he staked his allegiance.White always took great pains to be gentle precisely because he wanted to be cruel”); and by his efforts to train a hawk, described in the book offered here. In the afternoons there was shooting to be done, and on the Friday I had despaired of a pigeon and shot him a Frenchman -- out of season. Se la caccia con i rapaci è l'argomento principe di questo quasi memoir, non manca la contraddizione fra la paura della guerra, il pacifismo e la violenza comunque insita nella caccia e nel voler addestrare per sé un rapace a fare quello che dovrebbe fare per natura.

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