Repeat after me
ONCE, AT A DINNER PARTY, I met a woman whose parrot had learned to imitate the automatic ice maker on her new refrigerator. “That’s what happens when they’re left alone,” she’d said. This was the most disturbing bit of information I’d heard in quite a while. Here was this creature, born to mock its jungle neighbors, and it wound up doing impressions of man-made kitchen appliances. I repeated the story to Lisa, who told me that neglect had nothing to do with it. She then prepared a cappuccino, setting the stage for Henry’s pitch-perfect imitation of the milk steamer. “He can do the blender, too,” she said.
David Sedaris, in Esquire
[x]#205 fan maandag 1 juli 2002 @ 13:16:49
