[jjotto]

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all...

- Emily Dickinson

Allen’s book is a spoof on Dickinson’s theme.

[Verginius Rufus]

Thanks. I had missed the connection to Emily Dickinson.

I was thinking in terms of the ancient philosophical definition of man as a featherless biped.

Supposedly Diogenes the Cynic plucked a chicken and held it up saying, "Here is Plato's man."

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Sung to the tune The Yellow Rose of Texas....