[HN Gopher] A Once-in-a-Lifetime Bird
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       A Once-in-a-Lifetime Bird
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-05-31 15:19 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | megiddo wrote:
       | Which bird was it? I can't give enough fucks to wade through 6000
       | words for the name of a bird.
        
         | smegsicle wrote:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwing
         | 
         | apparently common in europe, but rare since it was in maine
        
         | ASalazarMX wrote:
         | Ah, I completely understand you, too high of a noise:info
         | ratio. It was a redwing.
         | 
         | There's many paragraphs like these that bring nothing. I
         | couldn't care less of what brand of car he drove or how early
         | he was used to get up in the morning.
         | 
         | > Three days later, Hitchcox woke up at 3AM. He picked up Louis
         | Bevier in his Prius, and they drove up Route 1A toward the
         | coast, admiring the ascending sun peeking over Acadia National
         | Park. Bevier observed a thin crescent moon, rising as well, as
         | they made their way to Steuben".
         | 
         | Chris greeted the duo at his house at 7AM, pleasant and
         | slightly begrudging that it was the earliest he'd woken up
         | during the pandemic. Despite his high spirits, he was nervous
         | about bothering the locals. So they treaded lightly, so as to
         | not upset Chris' neighbors before he'd even met them. "We were
         | three dudes walking around where there's not usually three
         | dudes walking around," Chris says.
        
         | cecilpl2 wrote:
         | "I don't want to read the whole thing, can someone just tell me
         | whether Ahab catches the whale or not?"
        
           | codeulike wrote:
           | Thats different though. There are so many pieces of
           | journalism that start "It was a cloudy April day when Someone
           | McSomeoneface finished their coffee and walked outside and
           | had no idea that later that day they would take the first
           | steps towards revolutionising sock manufacture" and you just
           | know from the first sentence that its just going to take
           | fucking ages to tell you anything
        
             | cecilpl2 wrote:
             | That's my point. Those stories are specifically about the
             | journey not the destination. You don't read long-form
             | articles to ingest information, you read them for the
             | flowery prose and turns of phrase and evocative mental
             | imagery.
        
       | herpderperator wrote:
       | Very cool art and parallax animations between the sections.
        
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