Goodly Booky Bits

[Clinton Huxley]

Sometimes you read a passage in a book and think, "My word, that is rather fine!". Well, now, in this thread, my gift to you, you can share it.

Just read this in J.A. Baker's The Peregrine. Here he describes a hawk swooping down to catch a partidge, from the partridge's point of view..

And for the partridge there was the sun suddenly shut out, the foul flailing blackness spreading wings above, the roar ceasing, the blazing knives driving in, the terrible white face descending – hooked and masked and horned and staring-eyed. And then the back-breaking agony beginning, and snow scattering from scuffling feet, and snow filling the bill’s wide silent scream, till the merciful needle of the hawks beak notched in the straining neck and jerked the shuddering life away

J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, Harper Collins, 2010.

Nature red in tooth and claw......