The musician became a bird lover at the aviary. He tells a story of holding a dying finch one day and feeling overwhelmed by its tiny heartbeat. He had never studied a bird so closely before, never observed its delicate and immaculate plumage, and the experience altered him.
~ Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
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Dying finch T__T
This short story reminded me about a novel “A travel of the sparrow” (“Путешествие воробья”) written by A. Platonov.





