Beautiful Birdness

There have been rumors around DeLillo for some time, of course. This is one of the lines that seems most clearly to point to his engagement with the Practice. Further work is needed…

“He watched several gulls veering and saw a hundred other gulls positioned on a slope, all facing the same way, motionless, regardful, joined in consciousness, in beautiful empty birdness, waiting for the signal to fly.” (Don DeLillo, Underworld, 186.)

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