Micro Book Group Guide No. 4

Tailored to the time-starved readership. No need to organize a group. Pull in a companion only if you want to.

1) Read the passage below. 2) Resolve the subsequent problem. 3) Deal with the rest of your day.

A percussion of feathers roofwise, sounds of pigeons in departure. And arrival. Sounds of staying.

An urban pigeon community brooding mid antennae and water tanks. Living the life of cloud-level chickens. The fluty calm often enough, occasional panics. Ritual passions. Six-note hymns repeated and repeated. Two phrases, each reversing the other’s rhythm. Who who-who. Who-who who.

Excerpt from The Truancy Bible, an impending novel by Naama Goldstein.

Micro book group guide #4

Resolve the following problem:

This reading leaves me…

1) Affected by a language describing what I’m seeing right now through my window. I appreciate the relevance. I only wish that the AI art had incorporated pigeon droppings.

2) Reconsidering my idea of prayer. Sensing the parallels between my living pattern and that of beings inhabiting their own dimension.

3) All of the above.

4) None of the above. I despise pigeons. I feel nothing but disgust.