Boria Sax is lecturer in literature at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and is the founder of the organization Nature in Legend and Story (NILAS). He has published many books on images of animals in human culture including Animals in the Third Reich (2000) and The Mythical Zoo (2001).
Though people generally do not think of them in such terms, crows are remarkably graceful: from the tip of a crow's beak to the end of its tail is a single curve, which changes rhythmically as the crow turns its head or bends toward the ground. Foraging on their long, powerful legs, crows appear to glide over the earth; they take flight almost without effort, flapping their wings easily, ascending into the air like spirits. Nevertheless, the whiskers around their beaks and an apparent smile make crows, in a scruffy sort of way, endearingly 'human'. In a vast range of cultures from the Chinese to the Hopi Indians, crows are bearers of prophecy. Because of their courtship dances and monogamous unions, the Greeks invoked crows at weddings as symbols of conjugal love. Crows are among the most ubiquitous of birds, yet, without being in the least exotic, they remain mysterious. This book is a survey of crows, ravens, magpies and their relatives in myth, literature and life. It ranges from the raven sent out by Noah to the corvid deities of the Eskimo, to Taoist legends, Victorian novels and contemporary films. It will be of interest to all people who have ever been intrigued, puzzled, annoyed or charmed by these wonderfully intelligent birds.
脑海中是否曾经闪现过这样一幅画面:在某个早已凋敝的边陲小镇的一隅,一群外表乌光油亮的乌鸦黑压压地齐聚在一棵歪斜破败的古树光秃秃的枝桠上,它们就像是随时准备走上刑场的犯人,又或者像是预告黑夜即将降临不苟言笑的使者,寂然,大多数时候只是低垂着脑袋沉默不语,偶尔发...
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原来有很多人在倾心研究乌鸦哎……
评分原来有很多人在倾心研究乌鸦哎……
评分原来有很多人在倾心研究乌鸦哎……
评分原来有很多人在倾心研究乌鸦哎……
评分原来有很多人在倾心研究乌鸦哎……
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