tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049832311913108906.post3575363998620207687..comments2023-12-16T02:39:56.603-06:00Comments on Gordon Grice: Asian Black Bear Injures GirlUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049832311913108906.post-70147144199312108072012-08-18T02:23:14.418-05:002012-08-18T02:23:14.418-05:00I haven't read either of those. Looks like I h...I haven't read either of those. Looks like I have some Kipling in my future. Gordon Gricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13068980330242909601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049832311913108906.post-30633179697096677422012-08-18T01:11:15.124-05:002012-08-18T01:11:15.124-05:00Yet another work of Kipling I haven´t read :O And ...Yet another work of Kipling I haven´t read :O And I call myself a fan...<br /><br />He also mentions the moon bear in The Miracle of Purun Baghat. <br />"The Himalayan black bear, moody and suspicious — Sona, who has the V-shaped white mark under his chin — passed that way more than once; and since the Bhagat showed no fear, Sona showed no anger, but watched him, and came closer, and begged a share of the caresses, and a dole of bread or wild berries. "<br /><br /><br />Croconutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049832311913108906.post-10708053404194707692012-08-17T21:05:38.823-05:002012-08-17T21:05:38.823-05:00Are you familiar with Rudyard Kipling's poem &...Are you familiar with Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Truce of the Bear"? Some make it out to be an anti-Russian piece (Kipling = jingoism + bear = Russia)but this,I think, does both the poet and the poem injustice. Read straightforwardly, it is one of the most realistic and harrowing nature poems one can hope to read (also, the bear likely intended is probably either an Asian black/moon bear, or a sloth bear, judging by the location, rather than the brown bear associated with Russia.)James Smithnoreply@blogger.com