imagine if
the little lost letter-dove
One of the world’s sweetest men has been reading me snippets from the local paper. There is a photo of an activist dressed as Santa Claus holding up a sign towards unmoved Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint Bethlehem which says, “Jesus brought us one message: peace, freedom, and justice.” In the section International News comes a distressing story “Brieftaube Geklaut.” He tries to translate literally: someone has stolen a letter-dove. This letter-dove is worth 150,000 Euros. He is under the impression that ‘dove’ is pronounced in birds as it is in entering water. “Despite its value this male bird had still only the name AS-969.” I imagine perhaps we can all agree that ‘letter-dove’ is a far better name for such a male animal than the drear and faintly contaminated sounding ‘carrier pigeon.’
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I love this Cathoel.
Thank you, Phil.
It’s a pleasure to have you reading.