- Знаете, есть такая птица - совсем без...

- You know, there is such a bird - completely without legs. She cannot sit down and all her life - in flight. Yes Yes. I saw one like this: she died and fell to the ground. All soft blue, and a little body as big as your little finger. Yes, yes, her body was tiny, the size of your little finger, and light-light: if you take it in your palm, it's lighter than fluff ... But the wings are with a wide sweep, transparent, blue, matching the color of the sky: you can see through and through. This is called protective paint. Camouflage. You cannot see her in the sky, and the hawk does not care for her: he simply does not notice her there, in the blue sky, closer to the sun!
- And when it's cloudy?
- And when it's cloudy, they soar even higher - where are the damned hawks! And they have no legs at all, these little birds, their whole life is on wings, and they sleep in the wind: they will spread their wings at night, and the wind will be their bed. Not like other birds - they fold their wings at night and sleep in the trees ... And to these birds - the wind makes their beds, and they ... they never fly down, only fall to the ground dead! ..
(c) "Orpheus Descends to Hell", T. Williams