A Loyal Companion
“What is the mystery of one creature's attraction to another?
Someone likened truth to beauty, but you cannot taste truth, or touch it, or feel it. It won't get your heart thumping, your pulses racing. It won't lick your ear. Besides, what a frog might find fascinating won't hold true for the titmouse. Then again, human persons find beauty in daubs of paint, chunks of marble, and Italian sopranos. Who can understand taste?
Take ticks, please. No one likes the bloodthirsty little buggers, no one finds them the least attractive—except other ticks. I truly believe this is where love enters the equations. The ugliest equine in horsedom could be grazing in the field, all swaybacked and moth-eaten, but let that mare come into season, and the stallion is in love. Old Gigi is the most beautiful creature he's ever seen. The sap rises, his heart sings. If he cannot be with her, he'll die. That's love. That's the fire that lets creatures as silly as sheep perpetuate their species, and the flame t...hat helps a lady starling select one gentleman out of a flock of a hundred identical males.MoreLess
Someone likened truth to beauty, but you cannot taste truth, or touch it, or feel it. It won't get your heart thumping, your pulses racing. It won't lick your ear. Besides, what a frog might find fascinating won't hold true for the titmouse. Then again, human persons find beauty in daubs of paint, chunks of marble, and Italian sopranos. Who can understand taste?
Take ticks, please. No one likes the bloodthirsty little buggers, no one finds them the least attractive—except other ticks. I truly believe this is where love enters the equations. The ugliest equine in horsedom could be grazing in the field, all swaybacked and moth-eaten, but let that mare come into season, and the stallion is in love. Old Gigi is the most beautiful creature he's ever seen. The sap rises, his heart sings. If he cannot be with her, he'll die. That's love. That's the fire that lets creatures as silly as sheep perpetuate their species, and the flame t...hat helps a lady starling select one gentleman out of a flock of a hundred identical males.MoreLess
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