. . . only outlaws will have goshawks, and Pluvialis is already turning into a Hereward the Wake of falconry.
It's been a while since I've gone hawking like this. I had forgotten the radical change in subjectivity. I had forgotten how the world simultaneously dissolves to nothing, yet is presented in a form so utterly real and tangible, it almost hurts.
(For the record, the UK has not outlawed goshawks. Yet.)
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A great quote and one of many. Helen gets everything right about falconry and about hawks in particular. She writes about the sport as it's experienced first-hand, not (as the rest of us do), as we would explain it. The difference is really startling.
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