How the Whale Became (2011)
“This didn’t worry him, though. He hated the thought of becoming any single creature. Oh no, he wanted to become all creatures together, all at once. He used to practise them all in turn – first a lion, then an eagle, then a bull, then a cockatoo, and so on – five minutes each.
He was a strange-looking beast in those days. A kind of no-shape-in-particular. He had legs, sure enough, and eyes and ears and all the rest. But there was something vague about him. He really did look as if he might ...suddenly turn into anything.
He was called Donkey, which in the language of that time meant ‘unable to stick to one thing’.
‘You’ll never become anything,’ the other creatures said, ‘until you stick to one thing and that thing alone.’ ‘Become a lion with us,’ the Lion-Becomers said. ‘You’re so good at lioning it’s a pity to waste your time eagling.’ And the eagles said: ‘Never mind lioning. You should concentrate on becoming an eagle.MoreLess
He was a strange-looking beast in those days. A kind of no-shape-in-particular. He had legs, sure enough, and eyes and ears and all the rest. But there was something vague about him. He really did look as if he might ...suddenly turn into anything.
He was called Donkey, which in the language of that time meant ‘unable to stick to one thing’.
‘You’ll never become anything,’ the other creatures said, ‘until you stick to one thing and that thing alone.’ ‘Become a lion with us,’ the Lion-Becomers said. ‘You’re so good at lioning it’s a pity to waste your time eagling.’ And the eagles said: ‘Never mind lioning. You should concentrate on becoming an eagle.MoreLess
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