“Chickens are true creatures
of zen - they live only and absolutely for the moment. Their actions one
particular second will not necessarily have any influence or bearing on their
actions in the next second, nor are they necessarily influenced by their actions
of the prior second. Chicken thoughts arrive in their tiny mad little minds
like flashes of a strobe light, each light being an action, each flashing with
the brilliance of a not very brilliant thing. Each action utterly random. The
complete randomness of chaos. Chickens are notorious escape artists, not due to
their ability to devise cunning plans as they huddle together in their coop
beneath a bare light bulb, scratching out complex diagrams in the dirt, but
simply out of sheet unpredictability. They are the pachinko balls of the animal
kingdom, effecting their escapes through the simple device of, say, turning
left for no particular reason.”
― Jeffery Russell, The Dungeoneers
― Jeffery Russell, The Dungeoneers
We still haven't caught her. She roosts 16 feet up in the barn rafters every night basking in the warmth of the floodlight. Maybe she is not so dense after all.
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