Courtney Timms
Human/Nature
Alan MacCormack/Safa Ghaim
The Buffalo Gals
“So, to me you’re basically grayish yellow and run on four legs. To that lot-” Coyote from Le Guin
After reading this quote I began to think about how much as humans, we are drastically alike. We seem to separate ourselves with our person “identities” and in that we forget how similar each of us really is. To survive our basic needs need to be met. It made me realize in every person you see there is a similarity you and that person share, whether its slim; like needing food and water. Or may be more complex like sharing the same cultural customs, religion, or traditions. I have found myself in the past saying, “Well we don’t have much in common.” But in the realm of things if you dive deep enough to try and get to know one another you can find many things in common.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
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Wasn't this quote from the section when the girl is asking Coyote why the animals look like humans to her? She sees them as humans, the coyote sees her as another coyote (does the coyote see the hawk and the chipmunks as coyotes...? that makes little sense).Perhaps I'm being too literal. "Resemblance is in the eye"-Coyote. Perhaps the girl's perception of the animals as people is meant just too establish that she has escaped the narrow restricted perception of them by "new people" like us.
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