Here is a charming podcast interview with John Crowley. He talks about how he came to conceive this book, how smart crows are, and the interviewer just lets him talk freely about all sorts of topics. If you're a plot elements spoiler purist, don't listen.
The bird Dar Oakley. He's a crow who can talk to people apparently. The narrator has a sad story. The bird has a long story.
"Change is the whole of the law," the narrator says.
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
Robert Frost's brief lyric. Dar Oakley works a change in the narrator, doesn't he. Something about Crowley's prose reminds me of Frost, maybe the tone of the descriptions in "Directive?"
https://geeksguideshow.com/2017/11/17...
The bird Dar Oakley. He's a crow who can talk to people apparently. The narrator has a sad story. The bird has a long story.
"Change is the whole of the law," the narrator says.
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Robert Frost's brief lyric. Dar Oakley works a change in the narrator, doesn't he. Something about Crowley's prose reminds me of Frost, maybe the tone of the descriptions in "Directive?"