The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger

The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger

Author:Eliot Weinberger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2016-09-22T14:45:08+00:00


One of the classics says that a horse’s ribs should be slender and numerous. An ordinary horse has only ten ribs. One with more than this is a noble steed. But only a thousand-league horse has as many as fifteen ribs. If you want to paint the bones beneath the flesh, especially if you intend to make fifteen ribs visible, they will only be visible if the horse is emaciated. With this in mind, I have made this image in order to show that the extraordinary deterioration of this thousand-league horse is not something to be concealed.



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