A bestiary is an encyclopedia of beasts. This morning in my Schott’s Almanac calendar (one of my favorite desktop calendars in the past few years), I read the “bestiary of a good host.” That and a little browsing around the British Library’s Illuminated Manuscript collection inspired me to some fun Tuesday weirdness.
The Bestiary of a Good Blogger
The good blogger must have
the forehead of a BILLY GOAT
the ears of a JACK RABBIT
the hard shell of an ARMADILLO
the belly of a BLACK BEAR
the subtlety of a SNAKE
buzz around omnipresent like a FLY
and fawn and lie like a DOG.
What beast would you add?
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The hairball of a cat?
…um, no, maybe not
Watchful eye of a hawk. . .
Or is it the eye of a tiger?
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I don’t know, Marcus. But I’ll go with the busyness of an ant, and working together with a common goal and purpose. I kind of like that.
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Dove.
As in, innocent as a …
the back of a duck
Marcus,
The eyes of a frog - the double-layered kind because you spend so much time staring at a computer screen.
-Sam
The stubbornness of a mule, and the talkativeness of a magpie.
Mark,
Thought I’d comment over here too after you commented on the entry listed below.
Hey, maybe you could edit my latest blog entry and I could take a stab at editing one of your entries.
That might prove instructive and help us write better blogs.
Or we might never write each other again.
Seriously, working in newspapers gave me an appreciation for constructive criticism and a tough skin.
Yes, writers - not just bloggers - need the skin of a Rhinocerous.
-Sam
The heart of a tiger.
Grrrrrr.
: )
Merrie
I’m thinking the nose of a dog to sniff out truth (from poop).
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