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Those feathered Harbingers of the Cape...
DYLAN THOMAS in "First Comment Treasury" (in the late 1930s) seems to have exemplified how the birds became a metaphor for the burden of misfortune or guilt from which one cannot readily, or easily, be free:
"The old forget the grief, Hack of the cough, the
hanging albatross."
The players of MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS were the first, perhaps, to mock this. The birds had one unfortunate visit to literature (Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, some 30-40 years before Dylan Thomas's use, in case you didn't know) which overcame their previously lofty place - and with the onset of air travel it took a troupe of comedic geniuses to begin the restoration of the reputation of this time-tested companion and guide of sea-faring adventurers.
All Hail the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
DYLAN THOMAS in "First Comment Treasury" (in the late 1930s) seems to have exemplified how the birds became a metaphor for the burden of misfortune or guilt from which one cannot readily, or easily, be free:
"The old forget the grief, Hack of the cough, the
hanging albatross."
The players of MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS were the first, perhaps, to mock this. The birds had one unfortunate visit to literature (Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, some 30-40 years before Dylan Thomas's use, in case you didn't know) which overcame their previously lofty place - and with the onset of air travel it took a troupe of comedic geniuses to begin the restoration of the reputation of this time-tested companion and guide of sea-faring adventurers.
All Hail the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
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