The Fool & L. Mauritianus

“Man, incontestably the most advanced creature, has only to observe the flight of birds to realize the weight of the earth’s imprisonment.” For our end of the summer episode, we feature the filmic epilogue of a brooding ornithologist via 1970 -did the butterfly evolve from the rhinoceros? Most likely, she did indeed. We also read from Errol Fuller’s Extinct Birds: The Revised Edition; 398 pages of beaks, muskets, tail-feathers, swollen purple Swamphens, and hypothetical species. We include a short excerpt as well from The Dhammapada - an age old Buddhist text which reminds the reader of “the transience of life”; we focus on Chapter 5 ‘The Fool’ (a translation by Juan Mascaró).If these subjects should cease to fascinate you, stay till the very end for over 2 hours of music from our archive -featuring tracks by Alisha Chinai, The Caretaker, Utta Kelkar & Vijay Benedict, Conny Froboess, Slowdive, Alzo & Udine, Hadda Brooks, Manos Hadjidakis, and quite a few others. Thank you for your support, fellow Venusians! Support the show