David Todd McCarty on Nostr: “If I had never seen Janet Bonney reenact the mouth-to-beak resuscitation of her ...

“If I had never seen Janet Bonney reenact the mouth-to-beak resuscitation of her hen Number Seven, who had been frozen solid in a snowstorm, then was thawed and nursed back to life—the hen was hand-fed and massaged and encouraged to watch doctor shows on TV—I might never have become a chicken person.”

~ Susan Orlean, “On Animals”

That’s a pretty interesting opening line. #Writing