A few years ago I visited Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden, walked around for a bit, then sat and read on a bench (Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk) for a couple of ho

A few years ago I visited Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden, walked around for a bit, then sat and read on a bench (Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk) for a couple of hours as the sun set. I happened to read a particularly affecting section where a main character's death is narrated from a strange limited omniscient perspective. And then a rainbow lorikeet [1] alit on the far end of my bench and aimlessly walked around for a minute or so before flying away again. Not exactly a rare bird for the area, but the confluence of events was memorable. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_lorikeet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_lorikeet