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  • It seemed to me, when I read them that I heard ... a bluejay's ribald screech ... and the heart-rending and piercing cries of a little brown motherbird whose nest had been ravaged and destroyed.

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • Why would we waste our precious time watching Beck when we know you'll come here and regurgitate everything that the motherbird urped into your throat?

    The Nation: Top Stories 2010

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