Sheep are descended from a ‘mouflon’. Yes (yes!)
he wind is blowing: it is the wind that changes the seasons, hot to cold. It blows and blows until the season knows it is time to sit on its suitcase, overstuffed with things that happened, zip it up and travel to the other side of the world.
In Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy is carrying her luggage up a steep path on a mountain in Spain. “The smell of wood fired in the stone houses below and the bells on sheep grazing in the mountains and the strange silence that happens in between the bells chiming suddenly made me want to smoke.”It is spring. The sound between Levy’s bells, the poet James Wright might say, is the sheep grazing – “Sheep eat everything / All the way down to the roots,” he writes.
The sheep’s wool does not wave in the wind. Its skin does not get wet in the rain. When the season changes, we shear the sheep, cleaving the seasons apart, weaving one year’s winter into another year’s protection, like the things we have learned, the things we can use to be tough, the jumper we remember to pack in case the temperature drops at night: it is almost winter now, it is not quite summer yet.
The seasons are opposite depending on whether you are at the top or bottom of the world, the cold end or the hot end. In The Transit of Venus, her characters in Sydney, Australia for now, Shirley Hazzard writes about what it is like to grow up in the southern hemisphere, which is like growing up in the silence between the bells.
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