I
got a note from Google to infom me that the 2 files owned by me in
Google Docs are not in Google Drive, and I can access them any time at
drive.Google.Com. Both files are dated 2011.
Frankly
I don't even remember I had ever used Google Docs and I know nothing
about Google Drive. So I clicked to take a look. True enough there are 2
items, one of them I sort of recognised being mine, with my style of
writing. It's a Blog, but not finished, so I have no idea whether I
ever finished writing it and posted it somewhere!! Very strange, how
could I have forgotten the whole thing?
I
am posting it here now, still unfinished, exactly the way it appears
on Google Drive. I am simply very puzzled that I should have not the
slightest idea how that happened, and why Google just put it in a
different place informing me only afterwards and not before ...
Does anyone know something about Google Docs and Google Drive?
27/03/2011 Funeral For A National Mascot - Knut Of Germany (Blog Draft)
He
was born with the destiny to the capriciousness of celebrity,
instantly became the mascot of the country, and died last week as is
obliged to die an animal of his status: in front of a camera. So that
everybody can see the video where how he agonized in the way
ceremoniously, almost ritualistic. It’s available on Internet,
naturally, so all who so wish can watch to his heart’s content the
scene of the bear, near demented, rolling around up a high rock
struggling with death till his last breath, dropping like broken heavy
stone into the water - dramatic almost theatrical - reminding of his
exhausting stardom right from the beginning, with the feverish attention
of the whole country, including being the star on the cover of Vanity
Fair. He died as famous as when he was born.
Knut,
barely a week old, more like a soft fluffy toy than a bear, was
abandoned by his mother, probably due to the very difficult birth,
which caused the death of his twin brother; but this rejected baby
immediately conquered the heart and gained the unconditional support of
the city Berlin, in fact the whole nation of Germany and beyond. He’s
the 1st polar bear born in a German zoo in 30 years but condemned to
die by the law of nature. The country responded, unanimously, to save
the baby, with combined voices of pleat almost maternal. Many German
even offered him their own homes.
That
was in January of 2007. However, not every single German was in love
with the baby bear and had indeed raised their objections with their
authorized voices, basically those of the defenders of animals. ‘The
zoo must kill this baby cub’, said Frank Albrecht, the most known
activist; ‘Knut would suffer behaviour problems for the rest of his
life.’ he sentenced. The public called him heartless. Now 4 years
later, seeing the bear ‘danced’ half mad, the voice and words of
Albrecht thundered like they once did: an omen. The media went knocking
at his door, and he sentenced once more: ‘Nature has taken vengeance,
liberating Knut the torture of captivity.’
Knut
died in the only home he was born into, filmed by a visitor who was by
chance or destiny was right there with his camera at the tragic and
very dramatic moment. He was only 4 years old, normally a polar bear’s
life span is about 30 years. He was really just a normal bear, no more
beautiful nor uglier than the rest of his specie. But being the most
famous and popular animal in the zoo, he was constantly subjected to
daily confront the incessant pester by children, besieged every single
moment of his life by screaming kids and bedevil treatments though
basically just innocent childish ignorance.
The
autopsy showed that Knut suffered serious alteration of his brain
tissues which, in the words of veterinarians, derived from the attack
of epilepsia that choked him. Albrecht, however, declared that Knut was
killed by a combination of stress, and domestic harassment, living
with 3 females. (lady killers?)
He, without deserving it, paid the price of fame with his life. Not very different from
That was it. I don't even know how to finish it now after a year and half!
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