Veins in your teeth
Spent the blizzard at home with my parents. Cozy. Did some shoveling. The snow was extremely powdery; whenever I would hurl a load over my head the wind would catch it and stretch it out into a huge plume like volcanic ejecta.
While there my dad opined on the subject of Dick Cheney shooting that lawyer in the face. His principal objection wasn’t to Cheney hitting his friend, but to the fact that Cheney was out there hunting quail in the first place. I responded that thousands of people hunt quail and it wasn’t that remarkable, but he was unmoved.
“I wouldn’t mind so much if they went out with no weapons, with just their bare hands, and then hunted like that. That would be okay,” he said.
“And with no clothes, either?” I replied.
But it’s an interesting idea. Start from the ground and see how far you can get. Just you and your wits and whatever you can find lying around in the woods. If you can make a passable bow and arrow from scratch, bully for you. If you must stalk your prey with empty hands and strangle it to death, so be it.
Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? I know some people can catch fish by sliding their cupped hands up from beneath its belly, but I’ve never really heard of anyone doing the above.
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