I had a somewhat similar experience -- sitting on a beach long after everyone else had gone to bed. There was a HUGE full moon, the fire was down to embers, and I was nursing my last beer in a state of steady bliss watching the moonlight reflect off the water. I saw a bird fly by, and land up on the mast of a sailboat beached nearby. "Man," I thought to myself, "it's so bright even the seagulls are out." Then I realized that this perched bird was more portrait than landscape, and figured it was an owl. [..]
Well, I guess I'd have to substitute your missing bits with spare parts from this unfinished cyborg I have lying around somewhere. Shouldn't be a big problem. That's what I'm a geek for.
Machiavelli:
So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.
Timothy Leary:
Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
Douglas Adams:
Forty-two.
Nietzsche:
Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
Oliver North:
National Security was at stake.
Carl Jung:
The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
Albert Einstein:
Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Buddha:
If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Ernest Hemingway:
To die. In the rain.
Jack Nicholson:
'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.
Ronald Reagan:
I forget.
Zeno of Elea:
To prove it could never reach the other side.
