Friday, August the 14th, 2009
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At the beginning of the year, you may recall, in homage to George Orwell's egg-counting mania, I began a daily squirrel count. Alas, I lack the single-minded diligence necessary for so useful a pastime, and I am afraid the count petered out on, er, the second of January.
I mention this solely as a pretext to draw to your attention this squirrel.
It is said somewhere, possibly by Dobson, that every fictional hero has an antipole, an eerie opposite that features in an—almost certainly unwritten—mirror of the original work. (If it was Dobson, it is a shame he never developed this thesis into an entire pamphlet.) I think we can safely say that what we have here is the antipole of Unconscious Squirrel!, the unconscious squirrel.