NOISE | WATER | MEAT pg 340
He had originally gone to the zoo early in the morning with Bruce Conner to record lions roaring for a play he was working on, when Connor asked him, "Why don't you read the lions a poem?" He had a copy of Ghost Tantras in his back pocket and very soon found himself trading a cadence of Ghrahhrs! from No. 49 with four lions...McClure went over to the tree kangaroos: "I decided beast language was not right for them, so I recited Chaucer. A couple of them literally clamored down from the stumps they were on, walked over to the edge of the moat and stood in a wobbly-wavy way looking at me."
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