Eric Maas’s Reviews > The Peregrine > Status Update

3.11 - October 18th

The bird out of place it’s always the first to die. Terror seeks out the odd, and the sick, and the lost. (p. 65)

Baker just pointed at me, it seems. Better watch out…

3.07 - October 12

[The dunlin] passed into his dark outline, and did not re-appear. There was no brutality, no violence. The hawk’s foot reached out, and gripped, and squeezed, and quenched the dunlin‘s heart effortlessly as a man’s finger extinguishing an insect. Languidly, easily, the hawk glided down to an elm on the island to plume and eat his pretty. (p. 60)

3.04 - October 7th

I was like a galaxy to him, too big to be seen. (p. 55)

Reading Baker’s train of thought, the field mouse seems like a long-tailed Sisyphus. Eating to live; never getting ahead, moving always in the narrow way between a death and a death…

3.03 - October 5th

3.02 - October 3rd

3.01 - October 1st

I will follow him till my predatory human shape no longer darkens in terror the shaken kaleidoscope of colour that stains the deep fovea of his brilliant eye. My pagan head shall sink into the winter land, and there be purified. (p. 51)

1.0 - Beginnings

In the middle of a meticulous list of measured facts (appearance, wing-beat speed, milage per hour in various types of flight, migrating behaviour): The excitement of seeing a peregrine stoop cannot be defined by the use of statistics.

1. Beginnings