Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Daphne Du Maurier’s “The Birds,” first published in her 1952 collection
The Apple Tree (now reprinted as
The Birds and Other Stories). Spoilers ahead. CW for (bird) suicide attacks and harm to eyes.
“Black and white, jackdaw and gull, mingled in strange partnership, seeking some sort of liberation, never satisfied, never still.”
Pensioned by disability from WWII, Nat Hocken works part-time at a farm on the Cornwall coast. He’s married with two young children, but has a solitary disposition. Middays he carries his lunch to cliffs overlooking the sea. In spring he watches the birds fly inland, purposeful, intent. In autumn those that don’t migrate are restless and uneasy. “And like people who, apprehensive of death before their time, drive themselves to work or foll
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Mutual Aid Group Disputes City s Claims About Encampment For Unhoused Tulsans
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UC Berkeley students occupy People s Park to protest university s plans to develop housing there
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Coleman Rainey, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Cal, lies in a hammock at People’s Park. UC Berkeley’s plans for the site are drawing protests.Noah Berger / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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People’s Park is shown with the UC Berkeleys campus in the background. Students are rallying to protest the university’s plan to develop the property.Noah Berger / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Students walk past a banner at People’s Park. They are protesting plans to use site for student housing.Noah Berger / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less