4067. Birds
communicate with people by their series of flight patterns. These flight
patterns are not infinite, even if they appear to be infinite to the untrained
eye. An alphabet would be useless if it contained millions of letters, and so
bird flight patterns are limited in number, and there are about 40 or 50 of
them that can be clearly be identified.
4068. “But,”
you may object, “obviously every time a bird takes flight, its movements must
be infinite, because the temperature or the air, and the movement of the wind
would conspire to make every flight of a bird as varied as the shapes of
snowflakes. Flight would vary infinitely like snowflakes and for the exact same
reasons!”
4069. God, I
can just see your smug expression because you surely feel that you have presented
me with an infallible argument abolishing all my silly notions about bird
language. You sit there across the table, puffing on your pipe, and you have an
expression on your face like a person who has just won a game of chess with the
well known four move-checkmate, the one that always confounds the beginner.
4070. Hold on
for a moment while I find a way to extricate myself from my obvious theoretical
embarrassment. It is true that every snowflake is different, and therefore, for
the same reasons the flight of every bird is different.
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