Pigeon racing is a sport in which pigeons are removed by an agreed distance from their home lofts and then released at a predetermined time. The arrival of each bird at its home loft is carefully recorded. For each bird, a velocity, usually in meters per minute or yards per minute, is calculated from the recorded time and the distance the loft is from the release point (distance/time). The velocities for each of the birds in the race are then compared to determine the order in which they reached their homes, and a winner is declared on that basis.
People and pigeons are curiously much alike. That is to say the lovely birds have those qualities of fidelity, affection, and love, courage, determination and pride which are qualities humans may boast of when they are at their best. If they display jealousy and pettishness, quarrelsome moments they should be forgiven, for their sins are small. Indeed, we humans should be forgiven as well.
In some things they shame us, by and large. Once mated, they are wed for life unless forcibly separated. When set to the task, such as a long race, they will persevere and endure measures of hell that only the best of men will willingly undertake.
It might be argued that they are simply, dumbly, following the programming of instinct; that they can do nothing differently. Perhaps that can be said of us as well.
from a novel by R. Wright Campbell
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