Thursday, January 22, 2009

And the fox is on the town-o

I thought I needed to remember this because it was such a strange experience.

I was trying to fall asleep the other night and couldn't because I was thinking too much. But I finally got to the point where I was half conscious and half not. It was very quiet for a while. Around 1 I heard the weirdest noise. I couldn't quite make out what it was, so I sat in bed just trying to put a name to it. I thought it was some sort of bird--screaming bloody murder--but then it could have been a dog, maybe. I still don't know what it was. It got to the point where I decided it was a person screaming in terror. So I get up out of bed and open the window...to see nothing. Then in the corner of my eye I see something moving. From one bush to another in the courtyard below there was some sort of animal scurrying about. Again, it came out and I think it was a fox. I didn't believe it myself, but it looked like a fox. I had never seen a fox before, yet I was positive that is what it was. Anyway, I just thought it was weird how I saw this fox, a supposedly shy animal, in the middle of a courtyard in a very suburban area. And you know, it wasn't only that. I felt kinda helpless not being able to recognize anything--the sound, the animal, its purpose for being there. Kinda puts one in their place, eh? Who wants to argue that we have access to OBJECTIVE reality?

5 comments:

  1. Lol, Fox is everywhere in UK. Even in central london at night you will foxes are waiting in the bus stops! were you scared??

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  2. I was not scared. I didn't know that foxes were scary? Can they be?

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  3. They can be. They have a reputation of attacking vulnerables. Although London foxes are civilized version! Do you see foxes quite often?

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  4. Only that one time.

    Perhaps I will see/hear more soon.

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  5. Yap maybe! I see foxes all the time, there is a park just behind my flat. I guess they come from there.

    Have you seen any squirrels ?

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