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To: Kid Rock who wrote (159)	12/21/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 206

It speaks eloquently of the exhilaration in that moment of recovery.

To: Kid Rock who wrote (159)	12/21/1999 10:39:00 AM
From: George S. Montgomery	Respond to of 206

Kid! I frequently am thick - like, you have to poke me with a stick to remind me to keep breathing. When you posted Mastodon; when you offered your first challenge; and when you asked the second time, I was in the dark about the song. Had searched it out, run into some very interesting sites, and managed to remain in the dark about the relevance of the piece. Even when you connected it to procrastination in nature, I failed to be able to pull it all together. I wondered if the line, "for little loaves of bread," which was in the version I searched up, but was not in the one you cited, had anything to do with it. This line gave a non-suicidal aspect to the birds' plummetting. It gave them a reason for their diving past the speaker's window. And the speaker finds it nececcary to get up, go to the window and actually verify the birds' RECOVERY!!! Damn it! YES! It took EdwardA's post of a while ago to pull all the pieces together! I had been poked with the stick - and made aware of the connection between the viewer's own life and the lives of the birds. He, and they, postpone survival, avoid destruction - till the whole scene has become absolutely crucial, vital, imperative. They all speed towards their own destructions - until the very very last possible chance for recovery. Magnificent! Thank you Kid. Thank you EdwardA. Let me now show myself to be a curmudgeon. The "loaves of bread!" The birds are, it seems arguable, doing the opposite of procrastinating. They are speeding, hurtling themselves towards, in pursuit of, a goal. Their falling past the window finds them in action, not in procrastination. They are rushing towards sustenance, not pointlessly plunging towards perdition. The "loaves of bread" complicate developing a direct association between what we speak of as human procrastination and the survival flights of the birds. Yes? No matter how precipitous these flights might appear. With the "loaves of bread" removed from the scene, I find your reference to the natural, universiality of procrastiination as an element of nature to be absolutely breathtaking! Great post! george