No, it's not Vaughn Williams' old internet service provider, but the sound of the animal, in this case the skylark, connecting with the universe. If you listen to this wonderful little bird you might think as I did this morning, up atop the Kilpatrick Braes, that it's your old NTL dial-up modem going mental. That, or your ZX Spectrum loading another overworked TDK D-90 cassette. But is that not what this little guy is doing: loading? In the form of downloading, uploading, breathing, and communicating. Is not the skylark, like every other creature on this planet, a 'modem' that facilitates a connection to an 'internet' and a cosmic web? Is not their song then the act of dialing up to the web? Which begs the question: should we not all, humans especially, be learning to sing as these skylarks do, communicating only the essential through our own technology? And dialling up to the great web of Life, skylark-like?
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