Have you ever thought about what makes a fox the cunning and artful figure that it seem to be? Well, I have and in the process of wondering I became so fascinated with these wonderful animals that my fascination turned to outright admiration. I even named the publishing business we were starting, Fox Personal Publishing. What are the qualities of the fox that could inspire people the way they that they do?
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Foxes are quick, of course. Everyone knows the tongue
twister, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
They're also clever, wily, sly, crafty, tricky, guileful, scheming,
skillful, deft, masterful, adroit, masterly and dexterous. But these
are all just traits we perceive in the animal and aren't actually the
qualities that make the fox the creature that it is.
What makes a fox, "The Fox" is that all the foxes senses are acute senses. Some creatures have some acute senses too but most have at least some duller senses, as well. A rhinoceros, for example, has great sense of smell but very poor eye sight. Few animals, the fox is one, possess a full set of acute senses. |
Senses for animals includes the five traditional senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell, of course. But, there is also another sense, a certain additional perception that goes beyond these five. Humans have this, it is the nashama according to the Jews or sometimes described as the soul. It is also believed by some of us that some animals also seem to have a degree of this as well. It's the "sixth sense" as it's often termed. Instinct to return to a place of rearing for a bird or to a stream where a salmon was hatched are examples of at least one dimension of it. It seems that the fox possesses some of this sixth sense too and it expresses itself in an intuitiveness that goes beyond many and perhaps most animals. Skipping for now the metaphysics of this unique sixth sense quality in a fox (or for that matter in any other animal including humans), let it suffice that we were impressed enough with foxes so that they became the inspiration for the name of our company whose purpose it is to find and to work with talented creators of images, words and objects and to help them bring their works to broader enjoyment by the public.