false 1188127 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1188127 6 105249 1951 The Goshawk total:40|5:9|4:14|3:10|2:5|1:2| 40 143 80 9 426944 4.00 11752 978 77637154 2793431 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 5 0 false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1971 Fri Nov 13 06:26:40 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 06:35:22 -0800 2009
This is a role model for those who would practice the craft of writing great li...more...]]> 22340147 1160035 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 4 0 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 19:31:53 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 19:47:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 44745473 133448 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 4 0 false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 29 07:38:51 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 13 20:10:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 33951341 16675 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 2 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1974 Fri Sep 26 23:56:05 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 23:56:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 37783239 133249 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 5 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 15 06:36:14 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 05:55:45 -0800 2008 73719453 2527444 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 0 0 false Mon Nov 09 04:21:09 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 07 04:45:35 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 04:21:09 -0800 2009 16288233 548000 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 4 0 false Sun Feb 24 19:36:06 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 19:42:45 -0800 2008 25351778 930189 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 1 0 false Tue Jun 24 16:31:57 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 09 01:14:02 -0800 2008 12318613 690440 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 0 0 false Sat Jan 12 07:15:57 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 07:16:38 -0800 2008 80400100 146804 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 0 0 false Wed Dec 09 07:29:39 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 07:29:39 -0800 2009 79468834 2995628 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 4 0 false Mon Nov 30 17:48:59 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 17:48:59 -0800 2009 78911798 2502482 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 0 0 false Tue Nov 24 19:31:10 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 19:31:10 -0800 2009 76775432 2385123 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 0 0 false Wed Nov 04 21:11:04 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 21:11:04 -0800 2009 76754666 2896845 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 0 0 false Wed Nov 04 17:57:15 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 17:57:15 -0800 2009 76238827 2894402 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 0 0 false Fri Oct 30 14:26:22 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:26:22 -0700 2009 74806915 2795099 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 0 0 false Sat Oct 17 04:47:28 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 04:47:28 -0700 2009 74322597 2828909 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 4 0 false Mon Oct 12 16:32:38 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 16:32:38 -0700 2009 70815511 2725982 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 0 0 false Fri Sep 11 01:13:51 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 01:13:51 -0700 2009 70215096 1862028 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 5 0 false Sat Sep 05 21:17:28 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 21:17:28 -0700 2009 68429198 1673976 1188127 1590172493 9781590172490 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416m/1188127.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181752416s/1188127.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188127.The_Goshawk 3.58 40 The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. 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. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.]]> 1951 0 0 false Sat Aug 22 03:23:36 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 03:23:36 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1188127