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The Whistling, Part 3

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Does Buster Scuggs Whistle?

In western literature we see whistling associated with the squire and the canterbury tales in the fourteenth century. We don't really see a precursor to this character type in roman and greek writing. But, but here we have an early example of the lusty lout who is also potentially whistling. And i guess the fluting here is what might be whistling, fluting without a flutethat's what i've always gessed, whistling. One of my favorite examples of raleast one that i think i encounter the earliest, and therefore always think about. This is the ichabod crane and headless horseman cartoon from disney

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