George Duke wrote on Fri, Feb 6, 2009 06:12 PM UTC:
''Which Falcon?,'' asked a friend ten years ago. ''Peregrine.''
''What, a Horse of a different colour?'' ''Barbary, Gyrfalcon,
Lanner, Laughing...'' ''What's the colour of a different Horse?''
''Behold a pale horse.'' Version (5) of the piece is Pigeon Hawk. P.H.
lacks the middle leg, the split block and split diagonal. P.H. has no S-D-S
or D-S-D. Instead only straight-straight-diagonal, s-d-d, d-d-s and d-s-s
directly to its pathway with no twists. Pigeon hawk you may even see (not so good as she) in your
artificial city, being adaptable, Genus Falco (all of these). Merlin is
the other name, Falco columbarius. Falco derives 1st millennium BCE in
Latin speaking from falx, ''sickle.'' pale horse is the metaphor, n'est-ce pas?