Canadian Flavour

This rather bland and seemingly anonymous editorial from The Sudbury Star in Ontario concerning the endangerment of the Canada warbler at least raises one interesting point: “It’s hard to imagine a world where there are no birds singing. The silence would be a deafening condemnation of our indifference.”

The Denver Warbler wonders, can silence be deafening? We know what indifference tastes like (baking chocolate), but what is this deafening sound of silence? Is it one hand clapping? Is it the inscrutably delicate sound of Simon nibbling bugs picked from Garfunkel’s afro? Is it a featureless lumberjack pissing Molson Ice onto the forest floor with nobody around to hear?

Or is it a fancy poetic device?

Egad! The anonymity of the post must be a nod to the namelessness of the animal kingdom. Yes! Animals operate as individuals and as a whole—separated by genus, hide-style, mating call and sex, but united by the global ecosystem. Oh, Sudbury Star, you doth feign, but we hath unraveled your mystery. You are threadbare and you have black necklace that intrigues …